Does religion have a place in American society?

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	Without God there is no society
13%	28 votes
	America has been fortunate that we have mostly seen religion used for great good
2%	5 votes
	As long as toleration does not require that one view other religions as equally true; rather, the assumption is that each citizen will grant that others have the right to hold and practice their own beliefs
15%	32 votes
	"The interested and active zeal of religious teachers can be dangerous and troublesome only where there is either but one sect tolerated in the society, or where the whole of a large society is divided into two or three great sects" -Adam Smith
1%	3 votes
	If the American people are so oblivious that they still need a two thousand year old ideology to acknowledge the principles of the common good, then religion has failed miserably
37%	79 votes
	Religion is the root of all evil
30%	63 votes

| 210 votes | Vote | Results | Vote

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