Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis - Jimmy Carter

Descriere Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis - Jimmy Carter

Now in trade paper comes ex-President Jimmy Carter's passionate defense of church and state. In this #1 New York Times bestseller, he warns that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. \nPresident Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state, warning that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. \nIn Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter offers a personal consideration of moral values as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning about where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. \n \nCarter describes his reactions to recent disturbing societal trends that involve both religious and political worlds as they increasingly intertwine and include some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day. Many of these matters are under fierce debate. They include preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion and politics. \n \nSustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy Carter assesses these issues in a balanced and courageous way.\n

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SIMON & SCHUSTER

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ENSTK

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9780743285018

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1

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