Summary

Chapter 8 is titled “Religion,” and subtitled “God Now Serves the Nation.” As he begins this chapter, the author breaks down issues to which religion might respond into three categories. The first is technical, which he further identifies as issues associated with science. He uses agriculture and health care as examples of how even the most religious of persons defer to research and knowledge rather than to faith when it comes to achieving their particular goals. The second set of issues to which the author says religion might respond is policy, which he further identifies as issues associated with government. Here, he uses economics as an example of how even the most religious of political leaders consults writers and thinkers on global economic matters before his/her religious text of choice, but then uses quotes from that text as justification for the...