By Bruce Bawer
From the writer of the commonly acclaimed a spot on the desk, this can be a significant paintings, passionately outspoken and cogently reasoned, that exposes the nice possibility posed to Christianity this present day through fundamentalism.The time is previous, says Bruce Bawer, whilst denominational names and different conventional labels supplied a correct mirrored image of Christian America's non secular ideals and practices. The significant contrast this present day isn't really among Protestant and Catholic, or Baptist and Episcopalian, yet relatively among "legalistic" and "nonlegalistic" faith, among the Church of legislation and the Church of affection. On one facet is the fundamentalist correct, which attracts a pointy contrast among "saved" and "unsaved" and worships a God of wrath and judgment; at the different are extra mainstream Christians who view all humankind as teenagers of a loving God who calls them to collapse obstacles of hate, prejudice, and distrust.Pointing out that the supposedly "traditional" ideals of yankee fundamentalism--about which so much mainstream Christians, clergy integrated, be aware of shockingly little--are in reality of particularly contemporary beginning, are distinctively American in lots of methods, and are dramatically at odds with the values that Jesus really unfold, Bawer fascinatingly demonstrates the best way those ideals have more and more come to supplant certainly basic Christian tenets within the American church and to develop into synonymous with Christianity within the minds of many people.Stealing Jesus is the ringing testomony of a guy who's both disturbed through the idea of an the USA with no Christianity and the idea of an American Christianity with no love and compassion.
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For this audacious aspiration, he is condemned by Otis Eldredge, a famed evangelist who sees advanced science and technology as things of the Devil. "Gifted with a golden tongue and a sulphurous vocabulary," Eldredge forms an organization called the League of the Righteous that soon wins great power. " Sabotaged by an Eldredge follower, Harmon's rocket ship explodes before takeoff. While Harmon proceeds to build another rocket ship, American society grows even more conservative: In the 1974 elections, Eldredge wins control of Congress and outlaws scientific research.
Gifted with a golden tongue and a sulphurous vocabulary," Eldredge forms an organization called the League of the Righteous that soon wins great power. " Sabotaged by an Eldredge follower, Harmon's rocket ship explodes before takeoff. While Harmon proceeds to build another rocket ship, American society grows even more conservative: In the 1974 elections, Eldredge wins control of Congress and outlaws scientific research. " In 1978, following Eldredge's death, Harmon flies to the moon and returns to be proclaimed a hero by an America now weary of right-wing evangelicalism.
In America right now, millions of children are taught by their legalistic Christian parents and ministers to revere a God of wrath and to take a sanguine view of human suffering. They are taught to view their fellow Americans not as having been "created equal," as the Declaration of Independence would have it, but as being saved or unsaved, children of God or creatures of Satan; they are taught not to respect those most different from themselves but to regard them as the enemy, to resist their influence, and to seek to restrict their rights.