The diplomacy of religious freedom

Farr rationalizes that while it is true that the president speaks of freedom in religiously informed terms and that religious conservatives tend to support his policy, much of the critique is misinformed or irrational. For one thing, the neo-conservative approach to democratization policy does not focus on religion. He believes that the religious beliefs and actions of others are not the only factor in protecting America's interests abroad and its security at home, but they can no longer be treated as epiphenomenal, and that it's time for American diplomacy to throw out the secularization thesis and embrace a new religious realism in foreign affairs.