Give Me That Old Time Religion https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/06/give-me-that-old-time-religion/

June 10, 2013 | Walter Russell Mead
About the author: Walter Russell Mead is a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute, professor of foreign affairs and humanities at Bard College, and editor-at-large of the American Interest. His books include Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (2004), God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (2007), and The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People (forthcoming 2017).

More and more Americans think religion is a force for good—but increasingly they also want nothing to do with it. These two facts are deeply interconnected.

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