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Somehow that tradition died away by stages in the Cold War era, so much so that by the turn of the new millennium the George W. Bush administration brought religion back into the White House, and in the run up to the 2008 presidential election, a loony fundamentalist preacher like Mike Huckabee was taken seriously as a presidential candidate, while the others in both parties fell into line, sincerely or otherwise, to demonstrate that their own piety was at least minimally acceptable.
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Gimme That Old-Time Irreligion
Gimme That Old-Time Irreligion A review of irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up by John Alan Paulos. Hill and Want, 2007.176 pp. $20.00, ISBN 10-0809059193
THE VERY FIRST THING I DID IN drafting this review was to google Chester Alan Arthur. I trust my readers will recall the name, if only after a bit of head-scratching, as that of one of the most obscure and unmemorable of American presidents, a run-of-themill New York politician who attained the highest office in the land by virtue of the assassination of his almost equally obscure predecessor, James A. Garfield, who picked the party wheelhorse Arthur as his running mate for reasons now totally forgotten.What has this to ...See the full content of this document
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