Government now embraces it. We have something of a state religion. The president has announced his intention to share the government's largess with faith-based organizations. They must not, of course, use Uncle Sam's dollars to proselytize, but just how Washington will ensure that down in the basement of some church a little prayer will not be required before a little food is doled out is hard to see. Maybe more cops is the answer.
More cops is our usual answer to any social problem anyway.
The government has faith in faith. For some reason, it's thought that religious organizations do a better job at, say, drug rehabilitation, than do secular ones. Only the proof of the proposition is lacking. Alcoholics Anonymous is cited, but the statistics are suspect. It is no different with other faith-based programs.