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Originally Posted by Grima21
This is basically circling the wagons. The secular portion of the US has grown by 4-5x over the last 50 years. As the numbers for Christianity in the US go down, you will see 20-25% of the population that is the religious right will become even more conservative as a reaction.
The tip over to secularism will occur when the 50% of the population that is the moderate middle go from being moderately Christian to moderately secular. This sociological phenomenon will not involved the main group of secularists or the religious right.
What do you think of the idea that we are both right, in that the general population is becoming more secular but politicians, conservative ones in particular, are less so. Look at the Republican presidential nominees, several of them sound more like preachers than politicians.
There was a speech of Kennedy speaking about his Catholicism, and how he would not allow his religious thoughts to influence his governance, basically an acceptance of church/state separation, and Rick Santorum spoke about it. He said that this speech "made him sick".