Those who claim America going godless ignore history

The end of religion in America is near. As Easter approached, the cover of Newsweek read, "The Decline and Fall of Christian America."

Jon Meacham, the magazine's editor, set the tone quickly: Recent national polls indicate that the percentage of Americans declaring "no religion" is at roughly 15 percent of the population -- an all-time high, and a remarkable increase from the 1990 percentage of 8.2 percent.

Surely God is, at last -- as Time predicted 43 years ago, in 1966 -- about to be "dead."

Not so, say the Economist editors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, who have just penned God is Back. For them, religion in America is going as strong as ever. …