Media reports on the recent National Day of Prayer controversies peddle a common tale: religious pluralism has undermined the American practice of harmonious prayer. However, no storyline could be further from historical reality.

Elena Kagan will be a fine and fair justice. President Obama has made a thoughtful, considered choice. But, on this day, I am a little sad. Missing from the bench will be someone who empathizes with the Protestant worldview in a visceral way.

But Rep. Souder's cheating scandal underscores something worse than mere hypocrisy: the use of religious faith to 1) manipulate and control others without having to submit the same standards yourself, and 2) cover for one's own sins.

The Democrats' problem is not that they are a-religious; it is that they are so diverse when it comes to religion that there is no single faith or moral framework that encapsulates this remarkable and unprecedented pluralism.

Throughout the picture, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are all trivialized. Could the filmmakers muster not even a vague attempt at post-9/11 Abrahamic interreligious understanding?