Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'

Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.

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