Jason Pitzl-Waters: Have We Forgotten How to Be Secular?

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Have We Forgotten How to Be Secular?
September 13, 2012 By Jason Pitzl-Waters
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/wildhunt/2012/09/have-we-forgotten-how-to-be-secular.html



According to Jacques Berlinerblau, associate professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, more biblical verses have been invoked by presidents and presidential candidates in the past four years than they have in the previous two or three decades. Berlinerblau posits that our society may be forgetting how to be secular, or what “secularism” even means, and has written a new book entitled How to Be Secular: A Call to Arms for Religious Freedom in order to address the issue...