The God of Shove 0
Joseph Margulies reflects on the place of religious belief in the Civil Rights Movement and the contradictions between the God of Love and the God of Shove. A nugget:
America’s civil religion will be with us always, but we must listen to the form it takes. Today, tens of millions of Americans merge an angry God with a chest-thumping nationalism to justify endless misadventures in the war on terror, thereby giving political cover for the apparently limitless expansion of the national security state.