Religion Dispatches asks ten questions of Bruce Ledewitz, a law scholar and author of the forthcoming Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, Practice:

In an interview with Bruce Ledewitz on his forthcoming Hallowed Secularism, the law professor tells RD that the so-called New Atheists want to lead secularists, many of whom know very little about religion, into opposition to religion. But for secularism to be healthy, he says, it must learn from the wisdom of the religious traditions.

Ledewitz also suggests that government should consider being more supportive of religious values generally, if not particular religions:

My next book is For the Establishment of Religion, which argues that government should be permitted to endorse the common core of religion, just not any particular religion.

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