Under God

When did "God" start to lose significance in mainstream society? It seems all too easy to just blame Republicans to the far right for creating a self fulfilling prophesy. I'd spare them from criticism, on account of the poaching they've received in recent years, but then again, their public scrutiny is quite well deserved. Who wants to listen to incessant jibberjabber about the decline of American society and the need to return to these right wingers' perception of what is holy?

In light of world history, the aberrations of the crusades and other religiously driven wars, I have very little confidence in foreign policy founded upon vague feelings of some sort of mandate from heaven. Rees perfectly highlights the attempts by US politicians to claim the moral high ground for their actions that, by all other standards, were wrong and illogical. The casual usage of "under God" diminished the original sacredness of the term, but in addition, that Christianity has been reduced to a political tool, and so ineptly wielded at that, is truly disheartening. The marginalization of Christianity in politics over the past few years has been advanced by the very individuals who have for years been decrying the rest of American society for their godlessness.