Just read part of the first paragraph of Jan-Werner Mueller's July 5 article "The return of religion to Europe." Unfortunately, I could not continue after reading that "religion played virtually no role during the last American presidential election."
Has the author not actually been paying attention to U.S. politics, which he claims to know? What about President Barack Obama's church in Chicago? What about the scandal over the racist comments spoken from the pulpit by the church's pastor? What about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's religious views?
These were huge issues, and not the only religious issues discussed during the campaign. And Palin's views continue to be in the news. Mueller's inaccurate statement on this caused me to dismiss anything else that followed in the article.