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As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times and the writer of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has emerged among the most provocative and important voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting profile of how American Christianity has truly gone off the rails - and just why it threatens for taking American society with it. In a story that goes from the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat brilliantly charts traditional Christianity's decrease from a strenuous, mainstream, and bipartisan beliefs - which acted as a "vital centre" and the moral force behind the Civil Privileges movement - through the culture wars of the 1960s and 1970s and down to the polarizing debates of present. He argues that Christianity's place in American life has progressively been bought out, not by atheism, but by heresy: debased editions of Christian beliefs that breed hubris, greed, and self-absorption. Which range from Glenn Beck to Eat Pray Love, Joel Osteen to The Da Vinci Code, Oprah Winfrey to Sarah Palin, Douthat explores how the prosperity gospel's mantra of "pray and expand rich", a cult of self-esteem that reduces God to a life trainer, and the warring politics religions of kept and right have crippled the country's capability to confront our most pressing issues and accelerated American decrease. His urgent require a revival of traditional Christianity is sure to generate controversy, and it'll be vital being attentive for all people worried about the imperiled American future.
