I am definitely behind now. I have 400 pages left to read, and I am pretty sure that I am not going to read them all today. So I am giving myself one more week to finish. I am just going to have to find a way to catch up later.
Democracy in America addresses the concept of separation of church and state, and it is interesting how differently it was viewed when it was originally adopted. Alexis de Toqueville discusses how separating religion (which is pretty much synonymous with Christianity at the time) functioned to protect religion from becoming aligned with a specific political party or view, so as to keep it from excluding individuals who do not ascribe to that party or view and to keep it intact if such parties or views were ever to fall apart. However, today it seems that even though the doctrine still exists, religion, and specifically Christianity, is attributed to a particular party and is not at all removed from the political arena. Actually, it is interesting how different our government is today in general from what is described in the book.
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