Mark Tooley - The Religious Left v. America
How else can the American Empire be stopped, unless God is reinvented?
by Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com
February 17, 2007
Mainline American Protestantism, when its elites were still theologically orthodox, viewed the United States as a providential instrument for prosperity and freedom. But after its elites abandoned traditional Christianity for a plethora of radical ideologies, it discovered that America is actually "demonic."
The recently published "American Empire and the Commonwealth of God" vividly illustrates the cosmological hatred that mainline Protestant elites, especially in academia, now reserve for their country. "Empire" is a project of the Presbyterian Church (USA) publishing house, Westminster John Knox Press.
Authored by three theologians from United Methodist seminaries, with help from a Jewish professor of law from Princeton, "American Empire" asserts that the United States is the "primary threat to the survival of the human species (along with that of may other species as well)." At least one of the authors argued that America is w…
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