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Utilitarianism Vs Civil Religion

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To put it in other words, civil religion was not a religion that entailed everyone to follow the same rules. In fact, it was the opposite, a believer in the civil religion might also be a Baptist , Catholic , or a Mormon . We can say that American civil religion in a sense was the answer to bringing many people from different religions and backgrounds into one group or community. Because the notion of civil religion can be found through the history of social and political thought. The civic religious dimension of the American experience is often traced back to a blend of ideas stemming from the Puritans’ traditions and from the Enlightenment, then, these two different traditions i.e. Puritanism and self-seeking utilitarianism have been present
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