In this way no major element will be omitted and the importance of each aspect can be judged in the light of the entire tradition, (religion-online.org)
Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion. (firstthings.com)
But I do not conclude as some others do that the entire tradition of religious - moral understanding of America should therefore be abandoned. (religion-online.org)