Inter-faith messages remind Monmouth County residents who they are.
In Jean-Jacque Rousseau’s model of civil religion, the state is unified and strengthened by public displays of faith that refer to deity, point to the afterlife, draw attention to the reward of virtue and the punishment of vice, and that exclude religious intolerance. Two of the three memorial services I attended on 9/11/11 fulfilled Rouseau’s requirements. The opener fell short. …
To find out what he and others had to say, go to Manasquan Patch. To see photos from the day, go to my set on Flickr.
