Although I was raised Jewish, my upbringing didn't include any formal religious education or training.
The citizen is becoming a pawn in a game where nobody knows the rules, where everybody consequently doubts that there are rules at all, and where the vocabulary has been diminished to such an extent that nobody is even sure what the game is all about.
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.