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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. A powerful expose of the under reported machinations of the religious right to force their particular view of Christianity on the American public, and to take over the reins of power to enforce their vision of how society should run. She traces the threads that lead from the alt-right and the religious right to the White House, the courts, and the legislature...not to mention the schools. It was amusing, however, when she thanked her brilliant editor in the acknowledgments. The editing was sloppy, and there were a couple of huge howlers that lost the book a star - for instance, Donald Trump was not elected president in September 2016. A truly brilliant editor would have caught that one, along with numerous punctuation problems and words where they didn't belong. Overall, worthwhile and important, but if you are grammar obsessed, you might prepare for some major cringing. In the 1980s, Howard Phillips, the conservative caucus chair, declared that ““We will not try to reform the existing institutions. We only intend to weaken them and eventually destroy them.” Paul Weyrich declared, “I don’t want everybody to vote.,,,Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” Judging by today’s political situation, they have succeeded. Their drive to promote a Christian nationalist movement attracted supporters who feared the changes (e.g., minorities, immigrants, non-Christians, women’s liberation) in America. While they were a minority, many were in the DC area and had the power to use their view of their religion (picking and choosing the points with which they agreed) to change America. For example, today they believe a woman has no right to control her body when it comes to whether or not to give birth (Billy Graham supported Planned Parenthood and Ronald Reagan signed the most liberal abortion bill in 1967) but the government has no right to order people to wear masks to stop the spread of a deadly disease. Former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos donated millions of dollars to religious rights groups. She was confirmed by the Senate, twenty two members of which, including four on the education committee, received $900,000 from her family and their affiliated PACs. She said, “We expect a return on our investment.” Under her administration, charter schools, in which she had financial interests, increased, with decreased safeguards, and in Detroit, the education system collapsed, partly because of patronage. Almost 90% of the children affected were Black. THE POWER WORSHIPPERS covers church, abortion, slavery, abuse, health care, and the judiciary. Things have gotten much worse since this book was published in 2019. For those who want to regain our democracy, there is not much time to make the necessary changes. The Epilogue provides a guide to do so. This book is an investigation of the integration of Christian Nationalism (which the author uses in place of "evangelical") into our secular public school, government, and medical systems. She finds the roots of the wealthy DeVos (Amway) and Green (Hobby Lobby) families in earlier proselytizers such as R.J. Rushdoony, David Barton, and Ralph Drollinger, whose primary focus was and is the maintenance of tax-free status for churches. Their demands that the United States return to its original status as a "Christian country" (falsely citing Thomas Jefferson) has only accelerated with the most recent administration, and the promulgation of religious charter schools paid for by tax dollars has continued unimpeded. Scary. Quote: "To any outside observer, it must seem odd that Christian nationalists loudly reject "government" as a matter of principle even as they seek government power to impose their religious vision on the rest of society." Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In her deeply reported investigation, Katherine Stewart reveals a disturbing truth: this is a political movement that seeks to gain power and to impose its vision on all of society. America's religious nationalists aren't just fighting a culture war, they are waging a political war on the norms and institutions of American democracy. Stewart pulls back the curtain on the inner workings and leading personalities of a movement that has turned religion into a tool for domination. She exposes a dense network of think tanks, advocacy groups, and pastoral organizations embedded in a rapidly expanding community of international alliances and united not by any central command but by a shared, anti-democratic vision and a common will to power. She follows the money that fuels this movement, tracing much of it to a cadre of super-wealthy, ultraconservative donors and family foundations. She shows that today's Christian nationalism is the fruit of a longstanding antidemocratic, reactionary strain of American thought that draws on some of the most troubling episodes in America's past. It forms common cause with a globe-spanning movement that seeks to destroy liberal democracy and replace it with nationalist, theocratic and autocratic forms of government around the world. Religious nationalism is far more organized and better funded than most people realize. It seeks to control all aspects of government and society. Its successes have been stunning, and its influence now extends to every aspect of American life, from the White House to state capitols, from our schools to our hospitals. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Anyway, this does a pretty good job of surveying the landscape. It just doesn't dig into the soil to really figure it out. ( )