President Barack Obama's second inaugural address this week contained an abundance of support for progressive ideas that nearly all humanists accept: economic justice, fortification of science, cooperative action, battling prejudice of all kinds, praise for diversity, acknowledgement of the need to adapt to new circumstances, and the need to act in response to climate change. But the entire ceremony was so saturated with religion in general--Christianity in particular--that the plea for togetherness could rightfully be seen as absurd and deceitful by millions of non-Christian Americans.
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A United States for nonbelievers?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/a-united-states-for-nonbelievers/2013/01/23/aafd9a32-6587-11e2-9e1b-07db1d2ccd5b_blog.html#
