Is There a Difference Between Atheism and Christianity?

A lot of the pushback against atheism had a political context in which a very strong evangelical movement and George W. Bush were powerful. And we're now two decades on or 15 years on from those debates and the political moment feels very different. In a certain kind of way, evangelical Christianity plays less important to role in our politics today than 15 or 20 years ago for a real life. I used to be sanguine that further retreat of religion would actually help to make our politics more harmonious, insane, so on. But has it turned out that these beliefs, irrational as they might be, have helped to provide an important social kit and important civilization to our politics?

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