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Crucifying Jesus and Secularizing America: The Republic of Faith Without Wisdom
Crucifying Jesus and Secularizing America: The Republic of Faith Without Wisdom
Crucifying Jesus and Secularizing America: The Republic of Faith Without Wisdom
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Jesus is crucified everyday in the United States.

Christians, especially conservatives, show greater hostility toward their own faith and contribute far more to the nations secularization than often wrongly accused atheists, liberals, humanists, Democratic activists, or card carrying members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

America must examine what it means to be a country of faith. In doing so, citizens should ask how they come together as one nation under the same God where all are welcomed as part of the same national family. Part politics, theology, and constitutional analysis, the book offers a possible answer that speaks to the American soul.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris US
Release dateApr 21, 2008
ISBN9781469113012
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