God, Liberals, and Liberty

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National Review:

God, Liberals, and Liberty
America’s anomalous religiosity is very much worth celebrating.

In a recent column, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote: “It’s sometimes easy to lose sight of just how anomalous [America’s] religiosity is in the world. A Gallup report issued on Tuesday underscored just how out of line we are.”

Given Mr. Blow’s left-wing politics, and given that his point was that all rich countries except for the United States are secular and that all poor countries are religious, he was obviously not celebrating America’s “anomalous” religiosity.


He should have been. America’s anomalous religiosity is very much worth celebrating — not because it leads to affluence, but because it is indispensible to liberty. Had Mr. Blow made a liberty chart rather than an affluence chart, he might have noted that the freest country in the world — for 234 years — the United States of America, has also been the most God-centered.
Yes, I know that the Islamic world has also been God-based and that it has not been free. But that is because Allah is not regarded as the source of liberty, as America’s Judeo-Christian God has been, but as the object of submission (“Islam” means “submission”).

Since the inception of the United States (and, indeed, before it in colonial America), liberty, i.e., personal freedom, has been linked to God.