Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence Hardcover - 2007
by Dershowitz, Alan
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In this challenging and provocative polemic, acclaimed civil libertarian and legal educator Dershowitz defends the Declaration of Independence against what he calls the religious rights attempt to hijack it for their Christianizing cause.
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- Title Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
- Author Dershowitz, Alan
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition Edition
- Condition New
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, Hoboken, N.J.
- Date 2007-06-01
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # SKU1009518
- ISBN 9780470084557 / 0470084553
- Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 8.62 x 5.84 x 0.85 in (21.89 x 14.83 x 2.16 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Christian conservatism - United States, Christianity and politics - United States -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006052987
- Dewey Decimal Code 322.109
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"This is an engaging refutation of an insidious form of 'political correctness' of the right--the nonsensical idea that our country was founded on Christian principles. Anyone, left or right, who admires the foundations of American democracy will enjoy this spirited reminder of the Founding Fathers' true genius."
--Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University author of The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, and The Stuff of Thought
"The wall of separation between church and state is one of the great barriers to religious tyranny. Among the wall's most articulate defenders is Dershowitz, who shows in this readable book why the authors of our Declaration feared theocracy and favored democracy."
--Nadine Strossen, Professor of Law at New York Law School and President of the American Civil Liberties Union
"Blasphemy proves that many Christians are as deliberately bewildered about the history of our nation as they are about the evolution of life on this planet. Dershowitz has done a great service in rescuing Jefferson, Adams, and the other Founding Fathers from the religious delusions of the Christian Right. This book will strike a great blow to the forces of theocracy in the United States."
--Sam Harris, author of the New York Times bestsellers The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation
"Right wing Christian zealots don't know Thomas Jefferson from Jefferson Starship. The assertion that our Declaration of Independence is a Christian document is absurd. Colonists fled Europe to escape religious persecution, not to be controlled by a different religion. Dershowitz proves that Jefferson and his compatriots purposely built a wall between Church and State that the Religious Right is now attempting to destroy. If conservative Christians are successful at shoving God down our throats, the end of democracy as we know it will soon follow."
--U.S. Congressman Pete Stark (D-CA)
"Blasphemy is a brilliant, well-researched critique of the Religious Right's 'Christian Nation' mythology and its misuse of the American historical record. Just as significant, Professor Dershowitz illuminates the open hostility and vitriol this movement routinely exhibits toward all, religious or secular, who dare to challenge its faulty conclusions."
--Barry W. Lynn, Executive Director, Americans United for Separation of Church and State
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- Booklist, 05/01/2007, Page 4
