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The Hijacking of Jesus: How the Religious Right Distorts Christianity and Promotes Prejudice and Hate
Christianity in America has become almost synonymous with right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics and -- thanks to Mel Gibson -- a brutally sadistic version of the religious experience. Millions of devout Christians, like Dan Wakefield, are appalled by this distortion of their faith that stands for peace, equality, healing, and compassion for society's outcasts. In The Hijacking of Jesus, Dan Wakefield asks how and why the Christian faith has been so effectively appropriated by the Bush administration. Why is it that Republicans have become the party of "moral values?" How is it that mainline Christian denominations and leadership, both Catholic and Protestant, have remained remarkably silent on the war in Iraq, the civil rights erosion of the Patriot Act, the growth of poverty, the Terry Schiavo debacle, and the fact that over 40 million people now live without health insurance? And how can Christians recapture and reclaim their faith from the cynical manipulations of Bill Frist, Tom DeLay, and George W. Bush?
Book Details
- Publisher: Bold Type Books
- Publish Date: Jan 2nd, 2007
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.92in - 5.32in - 0.60in - 0.52lb
- EAN: 9781560259565
- Categories: • Christianity - History• Christian Living - General• Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism
About the Author
Dan Wakefield is a novelist, journalist and screenwriter whose bestselling novels Going All The Way and Starting Over were produced as feature films. He created the NBC prime time TV series James at 15. A documentary film has been produced of his memoir New York in the Fifties. His nonfiction books on spirituality include Returning: A Spiritual Journey; Creating from The Spirit; The Story of Your Life: Writing a Spiritual Autobiography, Expect a Miracle, and How Do We Know When It's God?: A Spiritual Memoir.
Praise for this book
"Wakefield explores the chasm between liberal and conservative Christians with a novelist's eye for character and detail."
"Dan Wakefield has had a long career of fair-minded, important, and meticulously researched journalism. And he crowns that career with as complete an account and analysis as one could wish of the capturing of Jesus Christ as a totem for a few powerful Americans, intent on becoming powerful all over the world, and by violent and corrupt means which are anything but Christ-like. The very last words in this fine book are not by Dan Wakefield but Jesus, his Sermon on the Mount, not what you would want to call Pat Robertson or Dick Cheney stuff." -- Kurt Vonnegut