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How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom

Berlinerblau, Jacques

Paperback

PhilosophyReligion General

ISBN10: 0544105168
ISBN13: 9780544105164
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Sep 17 2013
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Founding father Thomas Jefferson believed that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God, but these days many people seem to have forgotten this ideal. Conservatives claim America is a Christian nation and urge that laws be structured around religious convictions. Hardcore atheists, meanwhile, seek to undermine and attack religion at all levels. Surely there must be a middle ground.

In How to Be Secular, Jacques Berlinerblau issues a call to the moderates--those who are tired of the belligerence on the fringes--that we return to America's long tradition of secularism, which seeks to protect both freedom from and for religion. He looks at the roots of secularism and examines how it should be bolstered and strengthened so that Americans of all stripes can live together peacefully.

Jacques Berlinerblau mounts a careful, judicious, and compelling argument that America needs more secularists . . . The author's argument merits a wide hearing and will change the way we think and talk about religious freedom. --Randall Balmer, author of Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America

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