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Book review by Cathy Young:

The new book Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, by writer and social critic Susan Jacoby, is a historical work but it is also an unabashed polemic on an acutely topical issue: the role of religion in public life in modern-day America. In the opening pages, Jacoby cites President Bush's presiding over an ecumenical prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral three days after the Sept. 11 attacks as evidence of "the erosion of America's secularist tradition."

The attack on secularism

Richard Evans Lee
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Cathy didn't do justice to this fine account. Jacoby's history of American secularism should be placed in every secondary school in the usa. And a few other places as well. It's a disturbing phenomenon that the first nation to be founded on a secular basis should be slipping into the maw of religiosity so rapidly. Can we truly account for that on the basis of a single assault on the North American continent? the bunyip

Posted by: bunyip | June 13, 2005 6:44 AM

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