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SIR: Here are some of the errors of logic, fact and argument in B.J. Coman's "Is America 'One Nation Under God'?" (December 2003).
Mr Coman states: "'Atheistic communism' is a favourite term with American conservatives, but I have yet to hear the term 'Atheistic capitalism'. Perhaps they have not read R.H. Tawney on the subject."
This insinuates equivalency between communism and capitalism. However, a crucial point about communism in this context is that it is itself a religion of a kind, and actively regards other religions as enemies to be destroyed. Capitalism is not a religion but a description of a method of production. It makes as much, of as ...