>>>Doing a little more research the national day of unity concept, I found this:
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>>>A New Progressive Alliance
>>>A Call for Unity between Secular, Spiritual, and Religious Progressives
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>>Good. There is one sentence in there with which I wouldn't agree, but in the spirit of reconciliation, I'm willing to let it go.
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>You mean the use of "rational" and "religious" in the same breath? ;)

Thereabouts. Actually, that sentence was too harsh to start with; the religious people aren't completely irrational. They only agree to be rational about one part of their mental activity, and not so about the rest. I think it's not easy to reconcile this contradiction in one's head and I really don't envy them on the mental acrobatics required.