Digby: Political Religion

Pastordan sent this Jon Meacham piece along and it's worth sharing today on George Washington's birthday. I've been hard on Meacham in the past, but I think this is good.

...For the wonderful thing about American public religion—or what Lincoln called our "political religion"—is that its creed is liberty and the rule of law, not coercion or forced belief or a link between one's civil and religious lives. George Washington promised that the government would "give to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance," a promise that I think is as fundamental to America as the promises of the Declaration of Independence.