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Summary: What a crock!
Review: This book is a complete crock. I can't believe this book even made it to print. I am a liberal, and a devout Christian. There is absolutely no war against Christianity, except for the war that David Limbaugh has created. He is absolutely like his brother, in that he is dividing American, instead of bringing us all together. Thank god that most of us have the sense to ignore this kind of rhetoric. Terrible Book!!
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Summary: Not Quite True...
Review: A lot of the arguments Limbaugh makes in this book about liberals make sense. However, saying liberals are waging war on Christianity is like saying, by attacking Iraq and Afghanistan, that America is waging war on Islam. This is not true.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: David Limbaugh is RIGHT ON! ALthough I'd heard of some of the cases he cites in this book, I was unaware of the extent that the liberal's have invaded our school system. THIS IS A MUST READ!
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Summary: A ludicrous and willfully deceitful political screed
Review: Before I sat down to do a thorough front-to-back reading of "Persecution", I turned right to the chapter describing the religion of America's Founding Fathers. It was exactly as I expected -- a ridiculous and embarrasing attempt to portray Washington, Jefferson, etc. as devout, almost evangelical Christians. Limbaugh claims, ludicrously, that our contemporary views of the faith of the Founding Fathers is the result of revisionist teachings of early 20th century liberal historians who deliberately set out to alter the public's perception of our Christian heritage. Limbaugh presents no evidence to corraborate this sweeping claim, but he does briefly mention the name of an obscure 1920's historian, who, Limbaugh is careful to point out, had "communist inclinations". The truth, and what Limbaugh doesn't want to reveal, is that the view of the Founding Fathers as "unbelievers" is as old as the founding of the Republic itself. As any student of American history should know, Thomas Jefferson's first presidential campaign was marked by opposition accusations that he was an "infidel", an "atheist", and even the "anti-Christ". While he was certainly none of these, Jefferson made no secret of his unbelief in the divinity of Christ, and the same could be said of many of the other Founding Fathers as well. Limbaugh clumsily mentions that recent research by a Religious Right colleague "reveals" the majority of Founding Fathers to have been members of well-known Christian denominations (though this has already been known for over 200 years). But what Limbaugh fails to point out (for obvious reasons) are the multitude of unambigious apostate statements made by many of those same church-attending Founding Fathers. In fact, only a few of the Founding Fathers, such as Patrick Henry, could be accurately termed what we today would call "evangelical Christians". (Mind-boggingly, Limbaugh fails to even mention Patrick Henry's assertive Christianity when making his argument.) <...
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Summary: Persecution for a few, Hostility for some, Danger for all
Review: Limbaugh recounts anti-Christian incidents in academia, culture & entertainment, media, and politics that seem to backed up by the source section in the back of the book. As stated in the title of the review, what is going on in America today is not uniform to each individual believer. A case can be made that the more vocal and public a believer is in their faith, the more that person can expect incidents, described in 'Persecution', to occur. There's undoubtedly a sea change of experience for the American Christian in that what is occurring over the last several years has not been experienced before in this country. The strength of book is it's compilation of recent events that are occuring in the U.S.--liberals simply cannot deny that they have it in for the American Christian. It's rather obvious that liberals see Christians, particularly evangelical Christians, as the symbol of all that is wrong with this country. Thus, liberals have conducted war on Christianity in America in all areas of public life. Evangelical Christians see this happening due to their 'absolute' beliefs in the Bible and their willingness to proselytize. Those in other denominations, where there is not a recent history of strong public presence of evangelization and a conservative, faith-based political activism are not likely to experience some of the more negative sentiment that is aimed at Christians in this society. It is this varying degree of experience that I think presents itself as a weakness of this book. It's safe to say that the experience of 'liberal' non-evangelical Christians in San Francisco, or anywhere for that matter, is radically different than what is experienced by 'conservative' evangelical Christians. The warning to all in this book is that America is fast losing it's place as the standard bearer of religious freedom in this world. This is not the same place you or your parents grew up in. Liberals may see that as a victory, but that victory is temporary. May the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be forever praised.
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Summary: The persecution could lead to violence
Review: I was attracted to this book because of what I have personally and experienced over and over. An example is my 6 year old grandchild came home from school one day with a gift from another student (they had to buy trinkets for the other kids in the class). The gift, from a religious bookstore, had printing on it and the teacher scratched out the word Christ. When I asked about it, my grandchild said the teacher had to because he was a "bad man" and she did not want his name on the gift. When I asked if the teacher said this, my grandchild responded, no, but added "he must be bad or why would she cross his name out?" I tried to explain why she did so but that only made things worse, and so I dropped it. She reasoned if Christ was a good man, why would her teacher cross his name out? This event may seem minor but is one of a continuous flow of hostile acts against Christians Americans are exposed to yearly. What if Dr. Martin Luther King's name was scraped off of a pencil by the teacher, would this not create a storm of protest? And he was a Baptist minister!
This is one of many experienced that illustrate why this book is must reading for all Americans, both Christians and nonChristians. I believe that the problems Christians face in this country will get worse and will lead to violence, and this book explains why. (I did not like the subtitle, as it over generalizes and I consider myself in some ways a liberal). One of the best chapters was the one on academia, especially public universities and colleges (where I am employed as a biology professor). Those who have scientific problems with Darwinism are assumed to have objections due to religion when, in many cases, it is due to real concerns about the ability of mutations to produce the variety in the natural world around us (yes, I know genetic drift and crossing over and other means are also involved, but, at its core, the creator mechanism is mutations and these only recombine or shift around the existing codes, something that no one denies).
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Summary: Persecution: Just read the other reviews
Review: Wow! Limbaugh brings the issues Christians experience on a daily basis to the forefront. And by the vitriolic hatred espoused in some of these reviews, it's easy to see Limbaugh's point. Despite misinterpretations by many of the reviewers, this book is not a political tome about the "right vs. left." Instead, it is a careful case about the subtle and not so subtle attacks on the freedom to practice Christianity.
What angers many liberal readers is the fact that they must defend this persecution in the name of political ideology. This is not a "victimization of fundamentalists" as portrayed by some reviewers. It is a no non-sense case for why Christians should stand firm to our common faith and enjoy the freedoms this nation was founded on.
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Summary: My religion is a private matter!
Review: I don't disagree with some of this book but the bottom line for me is that I pray where I want to pray, teach my kids what I want to teach them and live my life in a way that comforms to my values. No one has ever tried to take that away from me, nor could they. I don't need p.d.r's (public displays of religion) or political backing to practice my faith. It is within me, not somewhere out there in the town square. If your faith is strong, these things should not be necessary for your beliefs to be unshakeable. Until someone discovers the ability to reach into my soul and pull The Lord out of me, I don't fear the same things Mr. Limbaugh fears. In fact, I question the depth of his faith if it rides on whether the government gives approval to it or not.
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Summary: It's Not Really About Religious Freedom At All
Review: Mr. Limbaugh has gathered a number of different cases dealing with the freedom to practice religion from around the country, then cobbled them together to produce a book which supposedly chronicles an organized attack on religion by liberalism. I say supposedly because this book turns out not to be about religious freedom at all, but rather a political tome aimed at advancing the cause of the Radical Right. Undoubtedly there have been cases where overzealous officials have misinterpreted court decisions to the point where they have banned the most innocent displays of religious belief. A worthwhile study of this regrettable phenomenon (such as Stephen Carter's The Culture of Disbelief) would discuss these cases, point out the errors, and provide guidance for setting things right. Mr. Limbaugh, however, is not writing to illuminate but to deceive. The purpose of his exagerrated accounts (does anyone truly call the Bible a hate book) is to so alarm the truly religious among us that they provide political support to Mr. Limbaugh and his cohorts. There would be nothing wrong with Mr. Limbaugh's writing a book expressing his disagreement with the progressive agenda and providing conservative alternatives. There is something very wrong with this book, however, because he does not debate the issues but instead seeks to tar liberalism with the stain of anti-religious zealotry. This type of political warfare has become all too common in our society and will probably intensify as the 2004 election draws nearer. It is a disgrace to the nation, and those who practice such cynical, glib manipulation should be treated with contempt and hounded from office.
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Summary: More whining from the fundamentalist Right.
Review: The Republican Party, puppet of Christian fundamentalists, is proud of its contempt for minorities, its contempt for equality, and its contempt for civil rights. It attacks "liberals" for their supposed weakness, whining, and "victim mentality." It works hard to limit the rights of gays, non-Christians, and women. It presents itself as the party of morality while preaching a hypocritical doctrine of social Darwinism. David Limbaugh, whose only qualification as a "conservative" writer is his misfortune in being born Rush Limbaugh's baby brother, amply demonstrates the duplicity and hysteria of the modern Right in his new ghostwritten book on the plight of white Christian fanatics, "Persecution." This book is a terrifying chronicle of modern America. Christians are no longer free to practice their religion on any level; they cannot attend church, pray in public, hold religious public gatherings, teach their beliefs to their children, or acknowledge "God" in any manner. Actually, they can do all these things, and do all these things on a daily basis. Apparently, Limbaugh feels that Christians are persecuted because they cannot force prayer on others at public events (eg, football games), endorse fundamentalism through government (eg, Chief Idiot Roy Moore and his law-flouting monument to himself in Alabama), or inflict their skewed and hellish worldview on everyone around them, try as they might. This is the "victim mentality" at its least subtle. One would think that having fanatical Christians in power in the White House, Supreme Court, and both houses of Congress would appease fundamentalists like those who run the Republican Party. But, of course, it doesn't. As long as gays live freely without punishment, as long as women are free to exercise control over their own bodies, and as long as our government refuses to endorse Jesus Christ as the supreme ruler of our land, fanatics on the Right will have something to whine about.
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