America the tolerant

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Dinesh ^club

In the seventeenth century the American Puritans began with an encompassing, we might say a “totalitarian,” concept of community. Nowadays, fortunately, we only seldom require people to subscribe formally to explicit beliefs; but we still expect people to act and feel as if they believed the same thing. To pass for a religious person in the United States, it is less important than you be able to define sharply what you believe than that you be able, however vaguely, to share the equally vague religiosity of others. Our political faith is much the same. It is less important for an American public man to have clearly defined political principle than for him to share the vague political beliefs of as many as possible of his fellow citizens. Thus, although we proclaim ourselves to be religious nation by the word “God” on our coins and (by Act of Congress) in our Pledge of Allegiance, it is unlawful to express or avow in our public schools any specific religious sentiments to which everybody else could not agree. Our political parties must have platforms; but no party would get far less its platform was much as possible like that of the other party. ~ Page 199

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Gorgeous work! Stay well!

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