And some secularists share the view of the late American writer Michael Crichton that environmentalism is a religion, with its own creedand its own versions of paradise and hell.
Saudi-trained and -selected clerics serve as enforcers in our mosques and in our prisons and military as recruiters for a rabidly anti-American Wahhabi creed.
Yet class surely tells more than creed when it comes to American manners, and Romney is better understood as a late-twentieth-century American tycoon than as any kind of believer.