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Is America losing its religion?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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I Think Context Matters, Social and Political Context Matters

I'm not so sure I believe that all religions are expressions of the same faith, though they may be very different responses to the same existential needs or impulses or questions. But one point you've always made that I think cannot be made enough is that context matters and social and political context matters. And it's something that I think not enough people do often enough or loudly enough. To your credit, that is something that you were always trying to do, certainly in those new atheist debates. People may forget during then this is when like Islam of fascism was like banging down our door and the world was on the precipice of annihilation.

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