Trump alone
American civil religion is dead, to paraphrase Nietzsche. We have killed it.
American civil religion is dead, to paraphrase Nietzsche. We have killed it.
So what’s been the most shocking thing to come out of GOP-presidential-nomination-land in the last couple days?
I had work to do the other day, but I set it aside to reread Elie Wiesel’s Night as a way to mark the great man’s death and remember his life.
While I was struck by passages I anticipated, like his account of how his belief was shattered upon seeing the furnaces of Auschwitz—“Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever”—it was an unexpected line that caught me, given a current news story I’d been following.
Trump complains that tax-exempt rules require religious nonprofits to be silent on politics. He’s wrong.