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Our Endangered Values

America`s Moral Crisis


by Carter, Jimmy
Overall Rating Rating 5  |  1 reviews
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    For Jimmy Carter, religion and politics go hand in hand. The former president has always found his evangelical Christian faith t...more

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For Jimmy Carter, religion and politics go hand in hand. The former president has always found his evangelical Christian faith to be a source of inspiration and strength in shaping his politics. Yet in OUR ENDANGERED VALUES, Carter claims that the rise of the fundamentalist right in America threatens the most basic American principle of separation of church and state, and that its narrow and hard views have almost shut down honest debate and swept away basic, generally accepted values. This crisis is reflected in our foreign policy, where America now turns away from alliances and treaties, denying any authority to the international community. The debates in America over issues such as abortion, the death penalty, women`s rights, civil liberties, social justice, and terrorism are divisive and full of rancor. Always upholding the principles of free speech and diversity, Carter writes frankly about his positions on these topics and about how his born-again faith has informed them--remaining, in both religion and politics, a keeper of the faith.

Author:
Carter, Jimmy
ISBN:
9780743285018
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
212
Publish Date:
09/26/2006
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster

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  • After several books on spirituality and homespun values (most recently Sharing Good Times), President Carter turns his attention to the political arena. He is gravely concerned by recent trends in conservatism, many of which, he argues, stem from the religious right's openly political agenda. Criticizing Christian fundamentalists for their "rigidity, domination and exclusion," he suggests that their open hostility toward a range of sinners (including homosexuals and the federal judiciary) runs counter to America's legacy of democratic freedom. Carter speaks eloquently of how his own faith has shaped his moral vision and of how he has struggled to reconcile his own values with the Southern Baptist church's transformation under increasingly conservative leadership. He also makes resonant connections between religion and political activism, as when he points out that the Lord's Prayer is a call for "an end to political and economic injustice within worldly regimes." Too much of the book, however, is a scattershot catalogue of standard liberal gripes against the current administration. Throwing in everything from human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib to global warming, Carter spreads himself too thin over talking points that have already been covered extensively. Agent, Lynn Nesbit. (Nov.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
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