No Room for Christianity in the Religion of the Left By Dennis Campbell

Is the American left religious?  That depends on your definition of “religion,” and finding one that is universally agreed-upon is impossible.  For our purposes here, the one by the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance (religioustolerance.org/rel_defn.htm) will suffice:

Religion is any specific system of belief about deity, often involving rituals, a code of ethics, a philosophy of life, and a worldview… Thus we would consider Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Native American Spirituality, Wicca, and other Neopagan traditions to be religions.  We also include Agnosticism, Atheism, Humanism, Ethical Culture, etc. as religions, because they also contain a "belief about deity."  Their belief is that they do not know whether a deity exists, or they have no knowledge of God, or they sincerely believe that God does not exist.

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