You can’t understand our profoundly unique relationship to our founding text without understanding this.
“he American attitude toward the Constitution is frequently described in terms of worship, reverence, and fidelity.” Greene cites Max Lerner fretting all the way back in 1937 that “the very habits of mind begotten by an authoritarian Bible and a religion of submission to a higher power have been carried over to an authoritarian Constitution and a philosophy of submission to a ‘higher law.
It’s impossible to separate the new, conservative affinity for treating text as sacred and the Supreme Court as oracular diviners of holy meaning from statistics showing a statistically significant correlation between Americans’ approval of originalism and their belief in the literal truth of the Bible.
Now, religion. So as you know, the American culture begins with radical Protestants coming to America. And then they all split up into different religious sects. But what they all have in common is a belief that you should really be serious about religious texts and the Bible. And you should read them carefully, and you should interpret them on your own, and you shouldn’t be beholden to any special group of priests to tell you what it means.
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