[RoninLB]

Screw organized religion. This country was built around a belief in a god. Thomas Paine was a preacher who did his best to preserve that thought. That our constitution does its best to separate organized religion from state is his result. If you examine the history of the 4 presidents carved in the stone monument you will find that they believed in a god but not any organized religion. Lincoln is most notable in that regard.

fwiw.. Rome's RC has survived and prospered because it was flexible enough to change with its believers. Ronald Reagan, CIA's Bill Casey, and Pope whatever was the power that freed Poland. Rome knows politics when it sees it. Care to guess what the most powerful religion is in Poland ?

Today's far right is low key and gaining strength. They employ Wall St marketing models for recruitment and money managing gaining big returns and growth on its bucks. Bush throws them a bone to keep them in line like Harriet Meyers. That she didn't make the Supremes is less important that that the far right was acknowledged.

If you were to take notice every president sooner or later throws a line around about god.