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SUMMARY:America’s Sacred Argument: Christianity\, Secularism\, and the Re
 public at 250
DESCRIPTION:As the United States marks its 250th anniversary\, old question
 s about religion and national identity have returned with renewed force. De
 bates over public schools\, religious liberty\, Christian nationalism\, pat
 riotic ritual\, and the meaning of the founding have made clear that the co
 untry is still arguing over what kind of republic it has been\, and what ki
 nd of republic it wants to become. The legal separation of church and state
  remains central to American constitutional life. But legal separation has 
 never meant cultural separation. The United States has always been a secula
 r republic with a deeply Christian memory.\\n\\nThis talk will examine the 
 United States' enduring entanglement of religion and national identity\, qu
 estioning the assumption that the separation of church and state ever produ
 ced a purely secular public sphere. This talk will invite the audience to r
 econsider what it has meant (and continues to mean) to call the United Stat
 es both a secular republic and a culturally Christian nation.\\n\\nRather t
 han arguing for or against the Christian tradition\, Sam Martin looks to in
 terrogate how its persistence reveals something fundamental about American 
 political culture. When nationalism takes the form of legal or partisan con
 flict\, it misreads the deeper story. The real tension\, then\, is not betw
 een belief and unbelief\, but between two competing inheritances. Tradition
 al faith\, written into the nation's historical imagination\, and secular h
 umanism\, written into its constitutional design.
URL:https://visitsunvalley.com/events/americas-sacred-argument-christianity
 -secularism-and-the-republic-at-250/
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