Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics Audiobook (Free)

As the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the brand new York Moments and the writer of the critically acclaimed books Privilege and Grand New Party, Ross Douthat has surfaced as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Right now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails-and why it threatens to take American culture with it. In a tale that moves in the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat brilliantly graphs traditional about Poor Religion: How We Became a Country of Heretics Christianity’s drop from a energetic, mainstream, and bipartisan faith-which acted being a ‘essential center’ and the moral drive behind the Civil Rights movement-through the tradition wars from the 1960s and 1970s down to the polarizing debates of present. He argues that Christianity’s put in place American life has increasingly been bought out, not really by atheism, but by heresy: Debased variations of Christian faith that breed hubris, greed, and self-absorption. Ranging from Glenn Beck to consume Pray Appreciate, Joel Osteen to The Da Vinci Code, Oprah Winfrey to Sarah Palin, Douthat explores the way the wealth gospel’s mantra of ‘pray and grow wealthy’, a cult of self-esteem that decreases God to a lifestyle coach, and the warring politics religions of remaining and right have crippled the country’s capability to confront our most pressing difficulties, and accelerated American decline. His urgent require a revival of traditional Christianity will generate controversy, and it’ll be essential listening for all people worried about the imperiled American upcoming.