Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
"This is an engaging refutation of an insidious form of 'political correctness' of the right - the nonsensical idea that our country was founded on Christian principles. Anyone, left or right, who admires the foundations of American democracy will enjoy this spirited reminder of the Founding Fathers' true genius." - Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, author of The Language Instinct, The Blank Slate, and The Stuff of Thought
In Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence, author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence’s “Creator and “Nature’s God,” on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right’s goal to Christianize America by using the Declaration of Independence and arguing that this document proves that the United States was founded on Biblical law. Understand everything from the argument to the documentation that Dershowitz uses to disprove this historical distortion.
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Book details
- Author
- Alan Dershowitz
- Imprint
- Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 208
- Formats
- Hardcover
- Subjects
- Political Science › Political Ideologies › Conservatism & Liberalism
Religion › Religion, Politics & State
Political Science › Religion, Politics & State - Topics
- separation of church and state · religion and politics · American founding · church and state · conservatism · Thomas Jefferson
- ISBN-13
- 9780470084557
About the author
ALAN DERSHOWITZ is the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and one of the country’s foremost appellate lawyers. His recent books include America on Trial, Why Terrorism Works and The Vanishing American Jew.
Dershowitz has written the New York Times bestsellers The Case for Israel and Chutzpah and has contributed to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Los Angeles Times, among other newspapers and periodicals.
When he’s not writing, Dershowitz maintains an active practice as an appellate lawyer and a prominent defender of civil liberties. This commitment to civil liberties and legal argument runs throughout his written work.