Under God

Under GodThe learned have their superstitions, prominent among them a belief that superstition is evaporating. Since science has explained the world in secular terms, there is no more need for religion, which will wither away. Granted, it has been slow to die in America. Even Marx noticed that, in the 1850s. But he explained it by the raw state of this country: "The feverish, youthful movement of material production, which has to make a new world its own, has left neither time nor opportuni...