One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America Audible – Unabridged ridged
Author: Kevin M. Kruse ID: B00UIB516Y
Conventional wisdom holds that America has been a Christian nation since the Founding Fathers. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse argues that the idea of “Christian America” is nothing more than a myth – and a relatively recent one at that. The assumption that America was, is, and always will be a Christian nation dates back no further than the 1930s, when a coalition of businessmen and religious leaders united in opposition to FDR’s New Deal. With the full support of Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, these activists – the forerunners of the Religious Right – propelled religion into the public sphere. Church membership skyrocketed; Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and made “In God We Trust” the country’s official motto. For the first time, America became a thoroughly religious nation. Provocative and authoritative, One Nation Under God reveals how the comingling of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics today.
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Audible Audio EditionListening Length: 13 hours and 2 minutesProgram Type: AudiobookVersion: UnabridgedPublisher: Brilliance AudioAudible.com Release Date: April 14, 2015Whispersync for Voice: ReadyLanguage: EnglishID: B00UIB516Y Best Sellers Rank: #45 in Books > Business & Money > Processes & Infrastructure > Government & Business #74 in Books > History > World > Religious > Religion, Politics & State #76 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Religious Studies > Church & State
Excellent analysis and history of how Christian fundamentalism and the capitalist system became conflated in the attempt to erode the divide between church and state, rewrite history, re-cast progressive political struggles as not only "Un-American", but "anti-Christian", and to justify the ruling class ideology and economic system as having been ordained by god… this dangerous union limits the range of acceptable debate, bolsters American exceptionalism, has waged a multi-decade propaganda/public relations war to coincide with the class warfare of the elites, uses churches to propagate ruling class ideology, and will continue to have undue influence in years to come, as a full third of the republican party self-identify as religious fundamentalists who push for the destruction of all the social gains won since the 30s/ 60s and who, in concert with corporate power and government power, seek to eradicate any notions of church-state separation, seek to control the culture, and seek to use faith in the service of reprehensible and genuinely un-American ideals that leave no room for social programs, no room for diversity, no room for science, no room for any ideas that contradict or challenge the myth of America as a Christian-capitalist Godly ordained empire. I would also recommend the book American Taliban, about the grave threat religious fundamentalism poses to this country and the ideals on which it was actually founded.
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