Thereligion, well established on the subcontinent for more than a millennium, made vital contributions in the spheres of education, commerce and government.
Moreover, state support of an establishedreligion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself.
Is the George W. brand of compassion therefore something that will insidiously, albeit unintentionally, undermine a social order based on the notion that America has no establishedreligion and that its citizens have absolute freedom of belief?