Not the most dramatic show, but genuinely profound on the question of what

happens not only to religious practice but to a nation's culture when "the separation of church and state" is taken to mean the separation of religion and society. Pastor Neuhaus: "People forget the fact that the great secularizing forces of our time, the Third Reich in Germany and the Stalinist-Leninist movement in the Soviet Union, are emphatically anti any kind of transcendent reference guiding society. In some senses, they are ... living out the ultimate implications of the naked public square--that the public square has to be filled with sheer, raw power, which claims for itself an absolute or ultimate historical significance."