To the Editor:In “We Need to Talk About God” (Sunday Review, Oct. 14), Jonathan Merritt laments the fact that Americans, including practicing Christians, increasingly avoid using spiritual language, or “God talk,” but he doesn’t cite one reason: the increasing number of Americans who doubt or deny that there is a God to invoke. According to Pew research, 9 in 10 Americans believe in a higher power, but only a slim majority believe in God as described in the Bible. Also , 56 percent don’t think that it’s necessary to believe in God to be moral . Mr. Merritt’s God talk can therefore be broadened to very positive ends. A new vocabulary can unite moral Americans of all religious stripes or none at all.

Source: New York Times October 21, 2018 17:26 UTC