A secular faith; why Christianity favors the separation of church and state.9781566635769 A secular faith; why Christianity favors the separation of church and state
Hart, Darryl. Ivan R. Dee, Inc. 2006 273 pages $26.95 Hardcover BR516 In the US the point is made. Church and state are quite separate entities. Yet the religious informs the political and the political informs the religious. The result, despite the concept of the separation, is faith-based politics and considered completely acceptable, if not preferable, amongst many political groups and individual politicians. Hart (academic projects and faculty development, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc., or (ISI), is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1953. Its members, over 50,000 college students and faculty across the United States, take advantage of programs designed to supplement a collegiate education and to ) argues that, in fact, Christianity is thought to be a political faith which transcends all political rivalries, whether in terms of party politics, media bias, big business or labor unions labor union: see union, labor. . He shows how despite some attention to religious diversity religion is assumed to mean Christianity, and Christianity is assumed to be the faith of the American people An American people may be:
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