Do We Dare Say "Religious War?" "Holy War?"

The heated debate about whether or not a Moslem Mosque should be built at Ground Zero in New York led me to search and find an old book by one Robert William Fogel, a Nobel Prize winner in economics. Ten years ago that book said America was in a "Fourth Great Awakening." A 'Great Awakening' marks those cycles when religious debates have had a great influence on our politics, our culture, and on civilization in general. <br /> <br /> The United States is a dominant Christian nation. Abortion probably began this political debate. Then non-believers got equal billing with believers in the "hippie rebellion" of the 1960's. Then came the challenges to marriage as the union of "one man and one woman." The new culture went to the top of American government when Bill Clinton became the second American president ever to be impeached. Much more is involved, of course, but up to 9/11/01 it was a battle between one religion. Christianity, and Athiesm (or Secularism if you prefer that term). <br /> <br /> 9/11/01 Changed everything. At that point America's cultural war became a battle between two religious beliefs

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