I found these intriguing and hope you do too.
Religious Freedom And The Modern State from Cato Unbound, February 2018,
"Today’s westerners are likely to be highly tolerant of other religions, but this was not always the case. Indeed, repression was the norm in many European societies during the early modern era. So what changed?"
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Finding Morality and Happiness Without God from the Ayn Rand Institute
"The basic reason religion remains such an esteemed aspect of American society is that it is considered important, even indispensable, to morality..."
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