In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Notoriously, the United States is the most religious of the Western advanced nations. It's a bit mysterious why that is.
As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.
The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
The military is very constitutionalist, and I have my faith in them and in the cooler heads of the people.
Unfortunately, religion, like patriotism, is easy to misuse for political purposes.
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
The U.S.-led forces have the money, weapons and huge numbers, but these things are not going to weaken our will because God is with us.
We fully support the strikes against terrorist targets, not against the country, not against the culture, not against a religion, but against an enemy of them all.
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply religious - that religious fanaticism is an extremely dangerous deranger of otherwise sane and goodhearted people.
It is easy to respect secular Americans who hold fast to the Constitution and to American values generally. And any one of us who believes in God can understand why some people, given all the unjust suffering in the world, just cannot believe that there is a Providential Being.
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