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(0)Steven Goldberg
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Public recognition of religion has been a part of American political life from the beginning of our country, and that is not going to change. But in recent years, the effort by some to challenge the long held separation of church and state by imposing religion in the public sphere has caused more harm than good. Goldberg argues that the gravest threat to real faith comes from those who would water down religion in order to win the dubious honor of...
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"American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science." "Discussing the most recent and pressing collisions between science and religion--such as the medicinal benefits of prayer,...