{"id":1672,"date":"2011-05-19T05:39:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:39:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:39:13","slug":"important_considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1672","title":{"rendered":"Important Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"

So much effort by the Religious Right has gone to trying to prove that this country of ours is God’s divine creation and holds a special place in His heart and in His plans – akin to the way the Hebrew Nation was\/is considered within the spectrum of the Hebrew Scriptures. This causes so much twisting of history and the writings of our Founders. This also fuels the demand that the geo-political and sociopolitical world of Neo-Conservative<\/a> is actually what Christianity is all about. As I have often said, this harms the cause of Christ in the United States.<\/p>\n

Here is a book that may well bring perspective to such claims by the Religious Right.  Christianity Today<\/a> has a review of “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? A Historical Introduction”<\/strong><\/a><\/span> by John Fea (Westminster John Knox Press, 2011<\/span>)<\/p>\n

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Fea also sketches a helpful history of the Christian
\nnation narrative, showing how feuding factions–northern abolitionists
\nand southern slaveholders, fundamentalists and Social Gospellers,
\ncontemporary conservatives and progressives–have defined and
\nappropriated America’s contested religious heritage.<\/i><\/p>\n

In presenting the past disinterestedly, Fea rebukes the
\nhabit of “cherry-picking from the past as a means of promoting a
\npolitical or cultural agenda in the present.” Washington’s Farewell
\nAddress doesn’t validate the Religious Right’s blueprint for society,
\nany more than Jefferson’s bowdlerized Bible validates the Left’s
\nalternative.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire article, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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