Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence

By Alan M. Dershowitz

In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence’s “Creator" and “Nature’s God,” on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right’s goal to Christianize America by using the Declaration of Independence and arguing that this document proves that the United States was founded on Biblical law. Understand everything from the argument to the documentation that Dershowitz uses to disprove this historical distortion.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
• Release date: Jun 1, 2007
• ISBN: 9781620458655

Alan M. Dershowitz

Alan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer known for his work in U.S. constitutional law and American criminal law. He taught at Harvard Law School, where he was appointed the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law. Dershowitz is a regular media contributor, political commentator, and legal analyst.

Reviews for Blasphemy

[reannon_1 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dershowitz wrote this short, easy-to-read book to counter the hijacking of the Declaration by the Religious Righ who are arguing that (2) the Declaration has the same force of law as the Contitution (which he disposes of by the simple statement that no court has ever found that to be the case), and (b) that the Declaration's mentions of Nature's God, the Creator, and Divine Providence show that this country was founded as a Christian nation. Dershowitz goes through many of Jefferson's writings to show that Jefferson was a Deist, not a Christian, disagreed with so many tenets of Christianity, and most assuredly did intend to create religous freedom. He was, in fact, most proud in his life of the Declaration, but 2nd proudest of the Virginia Axt for Establishing Religious Freedom which he also wrote..