Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence

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		Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
		Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence

基本信息·出版社：John Wiley & Sons
·页码：208 页
·出版日期：2008年06月
·ISBN：0470281685
·条形码：9780470281680
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语

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In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence’s “Creator and “Nature’s God,” on the one hand, and the Judeo–Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right’s goal to Christianize America by using the Declaration of Independence and arguing that this document proves that the United States was founded on Biblical law. Understand everything from the argument to the documentation that Dershowitz uses to disprove this historical distortion.
作者简介

Alan Dershowitz, the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is one of the country′s foremost appellate lawyers and a distinguished defender of individualliberties. His many books include the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah, Preemption, and the Wiley books The Case for Israel, also a New York Times bestseller; The Case for Peace; What Israel Means to Me; and Finding Jefferson. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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This author, if it needs explaining, is a renowned lawyer and Harvard law professor, author of several best-selling books, and an abiding advocate and defender of personal rights and freedoms. Although he never shies away from taking controversial positions, he supports those stands in clear prose. All these aspects hold true in his new book, which begins boldly: "The Religious Right is engaged in a crusade to convert the United States into a Christian theocracy based on the Bible and, more specifically, on the divine authority of Jesus Christ." Dershowitz accuses the Religious Right of using words and phrases found in the Declaration of Independence as indications that the founding of the nation--the intentions of our Founding Fathers, that is--was based on Christian precepts. The major step he takes in refuting this idea, which he finds dangerous, is to negate the concept that the Declaration, despite such language as "Creator" and "Divine Providence," is a document of equal legal state to the Constitution. The Declaration is indeed a vital document but one for all freedom-loving people who cherish the separation of church and state. This book will prompt intense dialogue--surely the author's intention. Brad Hooper
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review
"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 deliberatly 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 Best-Sellers, The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation

"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, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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