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Book SynopsisI join the ranks of those who are angry, because I have watched as the faith I love has been taken over by fundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus but whose actions are anything but Christian.
Robin Meyers, from his Speech Heard Round the World
Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration''s domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation''s religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Why the Christian Right Is Wrong is a rousing manifesto that will ignite the collective conscience of all whose faith and values have been misrepresented by the Christian Right.
Praise for Why the Christian Right Is Wrong:
In the pulpit, Robin Meyers is the new generation''s Harry Emerson Fosdick, George Buttrick, and Martin Luther King. In these pages, you will find a stirring message for our times, from a man who believes that God''s love is universal, that the great Jewish prophet
Table of Contents
Preface vii
Introduction: The 9/11 Effect xi
Part One: The Speech Heard Round the World 1
Part Two: The Sin of Hypocrisy: Line by Line 11
1. Christians Don’t Start Wars, They Try to Stop Them 13
2. Missing in Action: The Sermon on the Mount 29
3. Rich Chicken Hawks for Jesus 45
4. Terminal False Dichotomies 63
5. The National Debt, Family Values, and Why They Hate Us 73
6. Homosexuals and the Politics of Death 87
7. “Pro-Life” Should Include Mother Nature 105
8. We Have Met the Enemy 117
9. Cleansing the Temple of U.S. Health Care 131
10. Christian Fascism and the War on Reason 141
Part Three: A Call to Nonvolent Resistance: How to Save the Country and the Church 157
Notes 189
The Author 203
