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Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion
Contributor(s): Wiker, Benjamin (Author)
ISBN: 1621570290     ISBN-13: 9781621570295
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
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Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: March 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism
- Religion | Religion, Politics & State
- Political Science | Commentary & Opinion
Dewey: 320.513
Physical Information: 1.43" H x 6.38" W x 9.25" (1.27 lbs) 256 pages
 
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Many Christians feel that they are being opposed at every turn by what seems to be a well-orchestrated political and cultural campaign to de-Christianize every aspect of Western culture. They are right, and it goes even further back than the Obama Administration.

In Worshipping the State: How Government is Replacing Religion, Benjamin Wiker argues that it is liberals who seek to establish an official state religion: one of unbelief. Wiker reveals that it was never the intention of the Founders to drive religion out of the public square with the First Amendment, but centuries of secularists and liberals have deliberately misinterpreted the establishment clause to serve their own ends: the de-Christianization of Western civilization.

The result, they hope, is government as the new oracle. Personal faith in a deity is replaced with collective dependence on government, and the diversity of religious practices and dogmas is reduced to a uniform ideological agenda. The strategy is two-pronged: drive religion out of the public square through law and by encouraging popular derision of the faithful; then, in religion's place, erect the Church of the State to fill the human need for a higher power to look up to.

But what was done can be undone. Outlining a simple, step-by-step strategy for disestablishing the state church of secularism, Worshiping the State shows the full historical sweep of the war to those on the Christian side of the cultural battle--and as a consequence of this far more complete vantage, how to win it.