Religion: God and Country

Religion: God and country | Gilroy Dispatch | Gilroy, California

The Fourth of July has passed. The birthday is over. Our nation is officially 250 years old. I’m old enough to remember America’s last big birthday, the Bicentennial of 1976 when we celebrated 200 years. It was great. The mood was euphoric, a feeling of real patriotism.  Things were not perfect, of course. The War in Vietnam had just ended, and the scars and trauma went deep. Then too the nation had just gone through the crisis of Watergate whic…

Religion: God and country

The Fourth of July has passed. The birthday is over. Our nation is officially 250 years old. I’m old enough to remember America’s last big birthday, the Bicentennial of 1976 when we celebrated 200 years. It was great. The mood was euphoric, a feeling of real patriotism.  Things were not perfect, of course. The War in Vietnam had just ended, and the scars and trauma went deep. Then too the nation had just gone through the crisis of Watergate whic…