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President Obama Is Now Losing To 'republican Nominee' In Polls - No Name Needed.

While We Remain A Nation Decisively Shaped By Religious Faith, Our Politics And Our Culture Are, In The Main, Less Influenced By Movements And Arguments Of An Explicitly Christian Character Than They Were Even Five Years Ago. I Think This Is A Good Thing - Good For Our Political Culture.

An Unexamined Faith Is Not Worth Having, For Fundamentalism And Uncritical Certitude Entail The Rejection Of One Of The Great Human Gifts: That Of Free Will, Of The Liberty To Make Up Our Own Minds Based On Evidence And Tradition And Reason.

The Decline And Fall Of The Modern Religious Right's Notion Of A Christian America Creates A Calmer Political Environment And, For Many Believers, May Help Open The Way For A More Theologically Serious Religious Life.

Incumbent White House Parties Have Won 10 Of The Last 18 Presidential Elections; The Odds Are Tight, But They Favor Obama In 2012. And So Gloomy Democrats, Check Your Despair; Gleeful Republicans, Watch The Hubris.