Title: a secular nation
Product review: Jacoby's book takes us on a tour of the USA's past, where Enlightenment ideas helped shape the secular Constitution, and where other social movements where, at least in part, influenced by secular ideas.A look at Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine brings to light the secular ideas for the Constitution, as well as the "wall" that separates church and state. However, not every secularist was hailed as a hero, and even forgotten by history thanks in part to attacks from orthodox religion and conservatives.Today, Jacoby notes, there are no great speakers for secularism, and the Right has a lot of power and clout. Secularists need to be heard, and add emotion to their arguments (facts and logic do not seem to sway as many people when emotion-packed preaching can get a group into a frenzy).Today, more than ever, we need more Paines, more Ingersolls, more Jeffersons, otherwise the separation of church and state may crumble before the weight of the religious right.
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