Asked for their views on expressions of religious faith and prayer by political leaders, 60 percent said there had been the right amount, 22 percent said there were not enough and 12 percent thought there were too many.
For Jews, a straight line can be drawn from the Hanukkah experience of the second century BCE to the eloquent expressions of religious freedom of the Founding Fathers, many of whom as learned Christian gentlemen of their era were versed in Hebrew and the Jewish canon.