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An eye-opening account of a groundswell
religious movement determined to change America.
Michelle Goldberg’s Kingdom Coming
takes us on a journey through an America in the grips of a
fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From
the classroom to the megachurch to the federal court, Goldberg
carefully demonstrates how the growing influence of dominionism—the
doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers—is
threatening the foundations of democracy.
Deep within the “red” zones of a divided
America we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation
in Christ’s name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence
of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders
of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution
to the country’s social problems
Kingdom Coming offers the powerful
testimony of “regular” Americans to illustrate the subversive
effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide, and it
urgently requires us to turn our attention to the mechanisms
of an insidious fundamentalism opposed to science, pluralism,
and reason.
Michelle Goldberg is a
veteran reporter at Salon.com, where she has reported extensively
on both sides of America’s ever-seething culture war. She
lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband.
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