Why the Christian Right Is Wrong : A Minister's Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future

by Robin Meyers

• ISBN13: 9780787984465
• ISBN10: 0787984469
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

"Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation's religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Why the Christian Rights Is Wrong is a rousing manifesto that will ignite the collective conscience of all whose faith and values have been misrepresented by the Christian Right."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

Robin Meyers is a United Church of Christ minister and a nationally known preacher and peace activist. A syndicated columnist and award-winning commentator for NPR, Meyers has appeared on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Dateline NBC, and ABC World News Tonight and was featured in the HBO documentary "The Execution of Wanda Jean," a disturbing look at the immorality of the death penalty and Meyer's efforts to save the life of the first woman to be executed in the state of Oklahoma. Meyers also writes for The Christian Century and is a professor of rhetoric at Oklahoma City University.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The 9/11 Effect.

Part One: The Speech Heard Round the World.

Part Two: The Sin of Hypocrisy: Line by Line.

1. Christians Don’t Start Wars, They Try to Stop Them.

2. Missing in Action: The Sermon on the Mount.

3. Rich Chicken Hawks for Jesus.

4. Terminal False Dichotomies.

5. The National Debt, Family Values, and Why They Hate Us.

6. Homosexuals and the Politics of Death.

7. “Pro-Life” Should Include Mother Nature.

8. We Have Met the Enemy.

9. Cleansing the Temple of U.S. Health Care.

10. Christian Fascism and the War on Reason.

Part Three: A Call to Nonvolent Resistance: How to Save the Country and the Church.

Notes.

The Author.