{"id":2165,"date":"2012-04-30T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/04\/the-politics-of-faith-and-american-exceptionalism.html"},"modified":"2012-04-30T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T17:30:00","slug":"the-politics-of-faith-and-american-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2012\/04\/the-politics-of-faith-and-american-exceptionalism.html","title":{"rendered":"The Politics of Faith and American Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

by Mugambi Jouet
Huffington Post<\/p>\n

Two major objects of attention during this election season reflect a key dimension of American exceptionalism: religion. First, America may soon have a president of Mormon faith<\/a>, Mitt Romney, who served as a Mormon missionary and bishop before becoming a politician. Second, Rick Santorum, the runner-up in the G.O.P. primaries, led a campaign focused on religious moralizing. Santorum notably declared that \u201cSatan\u201d is threatening America, and decried the evils of secularism, pre-marital sex, contraception, abortion, and homosexuality. Against this backdrop, Barack Obama is often depicted as a secular candidate, although that is not accurate, especially by international standards. For instance, Obama mentioned \u201cGod\u201d five times during his inauguration speech, regularly proclaims \u201cGod bless America,\u201d and has sporadically expressed specifically Christian beliefs, such as: \u201cWe are thankful for the sacrifice [Jesus] gave for the sins of humanity. And we glory in the promise of redemption in the resurrection.\u201d
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