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Moral Minority

Our Skeptical Founding Fathers

By Allen, Brooke

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In her lively refutation of modern claims about America's religious origins, Brooke Allen looks back at the late eighteenth century and shows decisively that the United States was founded not on Christian principles at all but on Enlightenment ideas. Enlivened by generous portions of the founders' own incomparable prose, Moral Minority makes an impassioned and scintillating contribution to the ongoing debate more heated now than ever before over the separation of church and state and the role (or lack thereof) of religion in government.

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978-1-56663-675-9
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee, Publisher


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Reviewed on August 15, 2006

In this lucid and compelling examination, critic Allen (Twentieth-Century Attitudes ) draws extensively on the writings of the Founding Fathers to argue effectively against the now-prevalent but erroneous claim that this country was founded specifically on Christian principles. Her book, which grew out of a 2005 article she contributed to theNation , debunks with impassioned quotations from the Founders the myths persistently championed by evangelical Christians to promote a religious agenda. ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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