Americanism as a Religion

Everyone who has reflected more than casually on the American national character has observed that religious belief is one of its most prominent features. We are, as G. K. Chesterton remarked of us in 1922, "the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed . . . a nation with the soul of a church, protected by religious and not racial selection." -- Terry Teachout, commentarymagazine.com, July/August 2007