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Summary: Amazing Hubris
Review: This is the book, more than any other, that turned me from fundamentalism to a more loving form of Christianity. The thesis of the book, that God ordained the United States as special as Israel is special to Him, is abhorrent, and unbiblical. The United States is not mentioned in the Bible, and the actions of the United States are seeped in sin, not holiness. We committed genocide against the indigenous population.
We enslaved Africans for our agricultural labor.
We crushed the working class industrializing.
We are the only nation to explode an atom bomb on a civilian population.
We take food from the hungry every day by our selfish, domineering economic control through the World Bank, IMF, and the multinational corporations we've spawned.
We imprison more of our population than any society in history, outside those who imprison for political beliefs.
Our mass entertainment is sopping in immorality and violence. The blind absurdity of calling such a nation Christ-like! If you had the eyes of God looking at the United States, and the compassion of Christ looking at our conduct, your weeping would never cease and you would never get off your knees. But no, Marshall and Manuel say we are special in God's eyes. Yes we are, but not in a good way. Of course there are good people and wonderful acts of charity and grace going on all the time here. But our national character is more like latter-day Rome than the New Jerusalem. A dangerously deluded book.
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Summary: reader review of The Light and the Glory
Review: This marvelous book is an enormously powerful yet easy read. It is appropriate for any age level from about 8 or 9 yrs. on up. I read it about 15 years ago and it still sticks in my mind for it was the seed upon which I became a born-again Christian as opposed to a person who just believed in God. This book has never been more relevant and necessary than today. If a number of Americans ,especially the Congress and all our judges would give one day to this book, our nation would reap enormous benefits in security and financial savings and education and peace.......Parents; please read this book and make it mandatory reading in your household. You'll be planting a very good seed.
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Summary: reader review of The Light and the Glory
Review: This marvelous book is an enormously powerful yet easy read. It is appropriate for any age level from about 8 or 9 yrs. on up. I read it about 15 years ago and it still sticks in my mind for it was the seed upon which I became a born-again Christian as opposed to a person who just believed in God. This book has never been more relevant and necessary than today. If a number of Americans ,especially the Congress and all our judges would give one day to this book, our nation would reap enormous benefits in security and financial savings and education and peace.......Parents; please read this book and make it mandatory reading in your household. You'll be planting a very good seed.
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