Rev. Howard Moody argues the prevalence of religion in the 2008 presidential election poses a danger:
The danger to our fragile democratic experiment can be seen most clearly in the way in which both political parties have now bought into the sacred narrative, meaning that one’s theology is predeterminate of whether one is patriotic or 100 percent American. Is this the reason there was no public outcry when Pastor Rick Warren staged a national televised event in which the candidates were put on the spot to find out if they were truly Christian believers (he called it discovering their “worldview”)? Governor Sarah Palin was spared this interrogation, but we can be sure that her “inexperience” is not nearly so dangerous as her belief that God has been preparing her for the vice presidency and that Iraq was a “task that is from God.”
We need a New Awakening because we’ve been asleep while religion surreptitiously seeped into every nook and cranny of our government. Even before the Air Force Academy scandal of proselytizing evangelicals, the Justice Department was full of Christian-trained lawyers running prayer and Bible study groups and an atheist soldier was being removed from the war zone because of threats from his fellow soldiers. If we do not believe that these are threats to our political way of life, then the danger is greater than we may realize.
Read his entire comment in The Nation.