This Economist article on the above topic is interesting, especially the graphs showing an inverse relationship between American and European responses as to “Religion plays an important role in my life” and the most important function of government is “to guarantee no one is in need.”
Europe is increasingly effete for a reason. Might American religiosity be a source of national power, rather than an intellectual embarassment?
The decadent left has always attacked religion for obvious reasons-it cuts into the State’s market share. Now a new faction of scientific realists (“brights” is just too ridiculous) attacks it from another angle. Just the other day, a very smart fellow told me the Declaration of Independence failed scientific scrutiny. No doubt he’s right, but the virus-like quality of that idea has the potential to destroy the body politic.
As Parapundit and Razib correctly note infra, many totalitarians claim God on their side. That hardly ends the debate, however. Secular totalitarianism is far from dead. The “sharp and educated” may prove just as much a threat in the end as “massive unskilled immigration.”
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