“Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith,†Dwight Eisenhower said in 1952, “and I don’t care what it is.†I’ve always appreciated that line, even though it’s usually quoted somewhat unfairly: If you read the rest of the speech, it’s clear Eisenhower was trying to make an ecumenical point about how multiple faiths might sustain the doctrine of human equality, not an indifferentist point about the irrelevance of theology to faith.
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