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By ERIC WEINER
New York Times
Originally Published: December 10, 2011<\/p>\n

THE holidays are upon us again \u2014 it sounds vaguely aggressive, as if the holidays were some sort of mugger, or overly enthusiastic lover \u2014 and so it\u2019s time to stick a thermometer deep in our souls and take our spiritual temperature (between trips to the mall, of course).<\/p>\n

For some of us, the season affords an opportunity to reconnect with our religious heritage. For others, myself included, it\u2019s a time to shake our heads over the sad state of our national conversation about God, and wish there were another way.<\/p>\n

For a nation of talkers and self-confessors, we are terrible when it comes to talking about God. The discourse has been co-opted by the True Believers, on one hand, and Angry Atheists on the other. What about the rest of us?<\/p>\n

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