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Breaking through the myths of our "Founding Fathers",
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This review is from: American Armageddon: Religion, Revolution and the Right (Paperback)
This book is, admittedly, a liberal work. However, it is from top scholars supported with the best scholarship. It breaks through the myths propagated by the religious right that would have us believe that our "Founding Fathers" were divinely inspired men falling just short of saints. It is impossible to speak of the "Founding Fathers" in the simplistic terms that conservatives often do as they did NOT have common beliefs. In regards to religion, they fell across the spectrum with what would ultimately develop into evangelicalism to outright deism. As men of the enlightenment, most had private if not public concerns about religion and tended to be very skeptical of religion. This book details the realities of the role religion played in the founding of the country. It is a good read and should be read by all: For the religious right it will be a hard pill to swallow, but as the title of one of the essays says, America was not founded as a "Christian Nation."
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Promotes an extreme leftist position on the cultural war .,
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This review is from: American Armageddon: Religion, Revolution and the Right (Paperback)
American Armagedondon Religion Revolutiion and the Right Dominion--- Redemption ---- Holy WarThis syposium was held with over 100 of the activists, researchers , and academics who attended this conference in Colorado on 9/27/97. They takes pot shots at the Promise Keepers , Evangelicals , Southern Baptists,and denigrate people who believe in the Bible as the word of God . "Fundamentalism expresses itself in scapegoating". Blames the Bible for inter racial killing , it does not blame the individual or their prejudices , but the actual Bible and those who believe it is the word of God . It anyalizes the belief of the second coming of Christ, discusses the rapture as a Bibical doctrine , and links the Bibical view of the End Times as anti semitic . It says the "approach used by Fundamentalists in reading the Bible has laid the foundation for the approach Christian Patriots use in reading the Constitution, and our current legal system" pg26
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