Randall Balmer on America’s religious right
Randall Balmer on the religious right in America:
...what has the religious right done with its political influence? Judging by the platform and the policies of the Republican Party —and I’m aware of no way to disentangle the agenda of the Republican Party from the goals of the religious right —the purpose of all this grasping for power looks something like this: an expansion of tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, the continued prosecution of a war in the Middle East that enraged our longtime allies and would not meet even the barest of just-war criteria, and a rejiggering of Social Security, the effect of which, most observers agree, would be to fray the social-safety net for the poorest among us.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The above quote is an excerpt from his upcoming book Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threatens America: An Evangelical’s Lament. Which, if it’s anything like Mine Eyes Have Seen The Glory (a book that was a huge help in sorting out various aspects of my own faith), will be an absolute must-read.
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