What's Wrong with the Christian RightUniversal-Publishers, 2004 - 184 pagini Silence may be golden, but not when it comes to the extremes of the Christian Right. That is why Jan Linn wrote his new book, What's Wrong With The Christian Right, just released by BrownWalker Press. As a former college and seminary teacher and author of ten previous books, Linn uses the Christian Right's own words and actions to show the extent to which it is trying to reshape both American politics and Christianity into its own image. The book describes in detail the agenda of the Christian Right, the tactics it employs, and the ways it plays loose with truth. It is also a call to action to everyone disturbed by the power and influence of the Christian Right. With careful documentation, this book exposes the extent to which the Christian Right is influencing American politics, who its political allies are, the ways it is working to re-shape America into its own image, and the hypocrisy it practices in the process. The book also takes issue with the Christian Right's agenda on major issues, and the distorted image its extremism presents of Christianity. What's Wrong With The Christian Right is ultimately a call to all liberal minded people, especially people of faith, to join the effort to offset the Christian Right as the dominant religious voice in America today. Several outstanding leaders in their field have commended the book to a wide reading audience. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell, former General Secretary of the National Council of Churches of Christ, calls the book "a must read." Dr. Albert Pennybacker, founder of the Clergy Leadership Network, describes it as "a book for these times." Dr. Arvid Lundy, retired from Los Alamos National Laboratories and a non-Christian agnostic, describes the book as "a joy to read." James Autry of People for the American Way describes it "a careful, thoughtful, well researched examination of those we call the Christian Right." |
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Pagina xi
... majority of men and women of faith in this country . And I , for one , am not prepared to stand by and permit Mr. Robertson and his friends to get away with wrapping their harsh right wing views in the banner of religious faith . Walter ...
... majority of men and women of faith in this country . And I , for one , am not prepared to stand by and permit Mr. Robertson and his friends to get away with wrapping their harsh right wing views in the banner of religious faith . Walter ...
Pagina 1
... Majority in the late 1970s . But with the increasing degree to which the Christian Right has become a major player in the political life of the nation , the stakes have been raised considerably . What was once thought to be a fringe ...
... Majority in the late 1970s . But with the increasing degree to which the Christian Right has become a major player in the political life of the nation , the stakes have been raised considerably . What was once thought to be a fringe ...
Pagina 10
... majority in the United States Senate in 1992 , and a reversal of leadership in the House of Representatives in 1996. My associates are now publishing a newspaper called the Christian American , which is slated for a circulation of ten ...
... majority in the United States Senate in 1992 , and a reversal of leadership in the House of Representatives in 1996. My associates are now publishing a newspaper called the Christian American , which is slated for a circulation of ten ...
Pagina 11
... Majority Leader Bill Frist , Assistant Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , House Majority Leader Tom DeLay , Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert , Majority Whip Roy Blunt , Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe , and Alabama leaders Bob Riley ...
... Majority Leader Bill Frist , Assistant Majority Leader Mitch McConnell , House Majority Leader Tom DeLay , Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert , Majority Whip Roy Blunt , Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe , and Alabama leaders Bob Riley ...
Pagina 24
... Majority , have sold millions.3 If you've ever been in a " Christian " bookstore the day one of the books was released , you've seen the mad rush to get one each installment creates . Stacks of them go like hot cakes . That , however ...
... Majority , have sold millions.3 If you've ever been in a " Christian " bookstore the day one of the books was released , you've seen the mad rush to get one each installment creates . Stacks of them go like hot cakes . That , however ...
Cuprins
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Enough of Baptized Partisan Politics | 52 |
Enough of Hypocrisy | 68 |
Enough of Historical Revisionism | 76 |
Enough of the Persecution Complex | 85 |
Enough of the Wrong Issues | 96 |
The Liberal Christians Manifesto | 127 |
The Future Belongs to Us | 142 |
An Unexpected Call for Dialogue | 149 |
Notes | 161 |
Termeni și expresii frecvente
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Pagina 121 - This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence — economic, political, even spiritual — is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government.
Pagina 139 - I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. "By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.
Pagina 47 - I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People For the American Way, all of them who have tried to secularize America. I point the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen.
Pagina 138 - Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and in your name drive out demons and perform many miracles?' Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!
Pagina 24 - For the Lord Himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Pagina 97 - Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Pagina 138 - For if any are hearers of the word and not doers, they are like those who look at themselves in a mirror; 24 for they look at themselves and, on going away, immediately forget what they were like.
Pagina 120 - Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Pagina 64 - ONWARD, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war ; With the cross of Jesus Going on before. Christ, the Royal Master, Leads against the foe ; Forward into battle See His banners go. Onward, Christian soldiers, Marching as to war ; With the cross of Jesus Going on before.
Pagina 12 - God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East.
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