The Sunday Telegraph London, February 23rd, 2003
As one demonstrator said to the cameras in Hyde Park last weekend, "The only thing that makes sense of what America is doing with Iraq is oil." Maybe . . . but what about religion? That makes even more sense of what America is doing. In 1956, President Eisenhower issued a decree making "In God We Trust" the motto of the United States of America. We in Britain probably thought the change either sentimental or cute, but certainly not significant. That is because we are wholly ignorant of America's religious history and, come to that, largely ignorant of our own. All we know is that the US const...
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