13. Whatever its many flaws, liberal Christianity has been a noble effort to maintain a faith that is intellectual honest.
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14.A similar confusion, given greater salience by fear politics, applies to how authenticity in Islam is discussed.
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14. A popular trope (sadly promoted by some New Atheists) gives credence to violent political Islam as somehow true voice of faith.
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15. By this way of thinking, ordinary Muslims (non-AQ, non-ISIS) are not real representatives of the faith, just offering a facade.
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16. One irony in all this: religious moderation often an organic development with roots that go back centuries.
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17. Conversely, religious reaction is often not organic development but an innovation, with many novel features with no roots in tradition.
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18. I mean, the idea of the rapture (so popular on religious right) is less than 200 years old. Islamic state is an innovation.
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19. In some ways, what we're witnessing is the break-up of the Eisenhower consensus on religion, a long lasting Cold War relic.
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20. In an American defining itself against Godless communism, the civic religion was the goodness of religion, regardless of content.
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21. Eisenhower: "Our government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is."
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22. Under Eisenhower you could be anything (except an atheist): a Unitarian, a reform Jew, a Catholic, a Mormon, etc.
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23. Eisnehower's civic religion of all-religion-is-good undergone lone collapse, first due to end of Cold War & now cultural wars.
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24. With culture wars, religious issues gained partisan salience, which meant increasingly defining other party (Dems) as Godless.
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