Is There a Religion in the Constitution?

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"I do not want a Christian church in charge of the United States government," he says. "Without those assumptions, the entire project is very much undermined and subverted" He doesn't think a secular state is a neutral state; it's based upon certain religious assumptions. 'There is no such thing as a secular nation'

Why we can’t understand this moment in politics without first understanding the transformation of American evangelicalism.

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