Guest View: Patriotism has no religion
Don Gall, Jonathan Stout and Jonathan Tomlanovich
According to the Pew Research Center, roughly 32% of Americans believe that “it is very important to be Christian in order to be considered truly American.”
That view led a pastor at Sen. Rick Santorum’s, R-Pa., campaign rally in 2012 to shout that all non-Christians in America should “Get out!” because “America was founded as a Christian nation.”
It is a view associated with “Christian nationalism.” It is also a view that is incorrect because it fuses Christianity with patriotism in an idolatrous and unholy union. Patriotism has no religion; only some individual patriots do.
Register-Guard
Fair game
“Revive the Fairness Doctrine” (Jan. 22) is right on. The doctrine required broadcasters to provide equal airtime for views opposing their commentary. It recognized the power and potential danger of an unfettered broadcast industry that could instantly sway the opinions of hundreds of thousands of individuals without regard for substantiation or truth.
In the 1980s the Reagan administration ignored government’s responsibility to protect the public from false information and disregarded the doctrine. Beginning in the 1990s, social media, cable television and hundreds of other new communication channels exploded the potential for harm and has resulted in the political polarization of our nation today.
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Guest View: Time present, time past
M. Reza Behnam
The coup attempt that unfolded on Jan. 6 in Washington D.C., took me back to the summer of my youth in Tehran, Iran in 1953. My grandfather held my hand firmly as we walked to the Majlis (the parliament) in early August of that year to hear Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq debate the nationalization of Iranian oil.
Grandfather, a distinguished jurist of Iran’s High Court and former governor general of the province of Khorasan, was a charismatic raconteur and a man of impeccable taste. He had been invited by the prime minister to witness the debate over the future of Iran’s oil, which was then in the hands of the British-owned Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
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