A month after Barack Obama's triumphant victory, we are still celebrating America's only authentic national religion, and it isn't Christianity--it's presidentialism, the worship of the president as an all-powerful, all-knowing deity who is the only important political actor in our country. This theology explains why [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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