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How We Treat the Religious Today.

Writer Stephen Carter. He's a professor of constitutional law at Yale University and author of "Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby." Carter's newest book, "The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion" (Harper Collins), argues that although the majority of Americans are religious, our law, politics, media, and universities pressure believers to trivialize their faith and treat "God as a Hobby."

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Other segments from the episode on October 11, 1993

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, October 11, 1993: Interview with Mary Gordon; Interview with Stephen Carter; Review of the television show "I'll Fly Away."

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