You're likely familiar with this: The basic idea is that it takes American historic lore, in addition to ideas like deistic manifest destiny and American exceptionalism, and wraps it into a core civil religion that embraces US history and tradition.
I think it's intriguing because it protects the American identity from more radical aspects of atheism and fundamentalism. It's a conservatizing force, rather than being a reactionary movement. Embracing this as a concept would enable political centrism to sit on its own, independent of the American Right and Left, and pull away entirely from the excesses and posturing of the culture wars. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion I've read a good amount of Roman history, and it shares some similarity with the Roman civil religion: acceptance of special origins (Romulas and Remus, AEneas) and civic and religious festivals as societal institutions. Thoughts on the concept? -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
