I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.
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Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.
I think that we are at a point in our country where we're trying to decide what role should religion play in the political arena.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.
Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.
Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.
The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
The problem we have in America is the systematic erosion of our religious values in an attempt by certain liberal groups to expunge our Christian heritage from the public square.