bobevenson wrote:Immanuel Can wrote:Ideally, yes. In practice, impossible.
Tell that to the AEP.
Actually, as an observer, I find any talk of a monolithic American "national church" quite absurd, in light of the European experience of the union of politics and religion.
Nothing remotely comparable has ever existed in America, and I would say that anyone who's afraid of such coming to exist in the future is just being very, very silly. The means for it simply do not exist. Since frontier days, rounding up Americans religiously has been like herding cats; tell them to follow any particular creed, and they'll hive off and make a new one. It's the land of do-it-yourself religion, really.