Authenticity in America

[Paul Mackin]

I enjoyed the recent posts about inauthentic Manhattan versus the 
authentic outer boroughs of NYC.

Can something be said for the authentic America's being the racist, 
homophbic, religious, biggoted place we can't help being familiar with 
wherever we live?

Is the liberal, rational, democratic stance of Blue State America 
basically hypocritical and phoney?

I have just read Terry Eagleton's Reason, Faith, and Revolution: 
Reflections on the God Debate, in which he takes to task Richard Dawkins 
and Christopher Hitchens of the anti-God brigade.

He seems to be siding against liberal democracy. (understandable 
since he's Marxist but even so)

Just wondering.

P