God and Other Famous Liberals: Recapturing Bible, Flag, and Family from the Far Right

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Summary: Sad
Review: As one who cherishes the difference between right and wrong, and bases right and wrong on reason as well as revelation, I do not see how America's God-loving Christians that I know can be labelled "far right". None of the ones I know are. It makes me sad that this author, especially being a man of the cloth, is injecting political correctness into religion. What ever happened to moral sense?

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Summary: Civil Religion all the way
Review: Church is funny! As a Christian I have to ask why do I want to recover the bible, the flag or the family. Each of these are nothing more than another form of idolatry when placed within the conflicts of Church and his straw enemies. This is a bad book that needs to be read to see how far Unitarians will go to pretend to be religious in the name of democracy. Hey Church, join a church and abandon the social club of Unitarianism and you might be able to experience something more than a civil religion of the state.

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Summary: Civil Religion all the way
Review: Church is funny! As a Christian I have to ask why do I want to recover the bible, the flag or the family. Each of these are nothing more than another form of idolatry when placed within the conflicts of Church and his straw enemies. This is a bad book that needs to be read to see how far Unitarians will go to pretend to be religious in the name of democracy. Hey Church, join a church and abandon the social club of Unitarianism and you might be able to experience something more than a civil religion of the state.

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Summary: An excellent inquiry into the roots of liberalism in America
Review: F. Forrester Church shows an enormous amount of knowledge and concern about the history of liberalism as it deals with religion, nation, and family. The first part of his book takes us into liberal interpretations of the Bible as expressed though the Unitarian Universalist religion. Church portays God as "the greatest liberal of all", and uses the words of Jesus Christ, perhaps the second greatest liberal, to support his claim. The next section of the book is devoted to exposing the liberal roots behind the foundation of America, and it also calls for more liberal politics in the future. One of the best things about this book is that Church recaptures the word "liberal", using it not as an epithet, but as a historic symbol of empowering people to make their own moral choices under universal freedom. The last part of the book shows how the word "liberal" applies to the family by claiming that "every mother is a liberal" and reminding us of our nation's liberal motto: E Pluribus Unam (out of many, one). I am personally grateful to F. Forrester Church for guiding me on this junket through the roots of the liberal spirit and for "recapturing" exactly what it means to be a "liberal" in America today. Contrary to conservative media messages that portray the "L" word as an anathema, it is definitely something that I am PROUD to be as a U.S. citizen.

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Summary: Well written & pertinent!
Review: Forrest Church has thoroughly researched our history and connected our founding father's thoughts & hearts to a much more liberal doctrine of spirit in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence than most conservatives will be ready to believe.
His hypothesis that we were founded on liberal values that have been under attack from the beginning makes perfect sense, and is very important to today's world, with all the fundamentalism and evangelic fervor pushing us further & further to the right.
Sadly, most will automatically dismiss this book by the title alone, afraid of what they will find. If they'd take the time they'd see good reasons why God must be a liberal, and why we must return as a nation to more liberal thinking and behavior if we are to remain a nation that values it's people.
I highly recommend this book!

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Summary: We've always known that God was a Liberal
Review: Thank God for Forrest Church!! He has so eloquently written what we Liberals have always known. This work will expose the Religious Right for what they are. Overblown zealots, who have wrongly hi-jacked the symbols of Family and Flag.