God and America: Lukewarm Is Not a Strategy

Americans no longer have the luxury of water cooler debates between ACLU members and the religious right over whether someone may be irreparably harmed by hearing a prayer before a high school football game. There are people around this world, which is getting smaller, more crowded, and easier to access than ever before, who are really into their religion—and they are interested in how you feel about that. They love and consider their god to be exclusive. They don’t believe your god is equal to theirs, and they don’t care how that strikes you. Political correctness does not impress them. Their god does.