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With The Perspective Afforded By The Passage Of Time, Where Does 9/11 Rank As A Turning Point In Our National History? For The Victims And Their Families, Innocents Going About Their Lives, Suddenly And Brutally Murdered, No Other Day Can Ever Matter As Much.

It's Possible That The 2012 General-election Race Will Be The Least Overtly Religious One Since 1972, The Last Campaign Before Roe V. Wade And The Rise Of Jimmy Carter Brought Evangelicalism Into The Political Mainstream. That's Because Faith Remains A Complicated Issue For Obama, Who Is Still Wrongly Thought To Be A Muslim In Some Quarters.

Only The Most Unapologetic Biblical Fundamentalists, For Instance, Take Every Biblical Injunction Literally. If We All Took All Scripture At The Same Level Of Authority, Then We Would Be More Open To Slavery, To The Subjugation Of Women, To Wider Use Of Stoning. Jesus Himself Spoke Out Frequently Against Divorce In The Strongest Of Terms.

Jefferson Was The Rare Leader Who Stood Out From The Crowd Without Intimidating It.

The More We Can Do To Support And Promulgate The Intellectual Traditions Of The Abrahamic Faiths - Of Judaism, Christianity, And Islam - The Better Armed We Will Be To Fight Fundamentalism.