Our Endangered Values: America's Moral CrisisSimon and Schuster, 2005 M11 1 - 224 páginas President Jimmy Carter offers a passionate defense of separation of church and state, warning that fundamentalists are deliberately blurring the lines between politics and religion. In Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter offers a personal consideration of "moral values" as they relate to the important issues of the day. He puts forward a passionate defense of separation of church and state, and a strong warning about where the country is heading as the lines between politics and rigid religious fundamentalism are blurred. Carter describes his reactions to recent disturbing societal trends that involve both religious and political worlds as they increasingly intertwine and include some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day. Many of these matters are under fierce debate. They include preemptive war, women's rights, terrorism, civil liberties, homosexuality, abortion, the death penalty, science and religion, environmental degradation, nuclear arsenals, America's global image, fundamentalism, and the melding of religion and politics. Sustained by his lifelong faith, Jimmy Carter assesses these issues in a balanced and courageous way. |
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3 The Rise of Religious Fundamentalism | 30 |
4 Growing Conflicts Among Religious People | 36 |
5 No Conflict Between Science and Religion | 47 |
6 The Entwining of Church and State | 53 |
7 Sins of Divorce and Homosexuality | 65 |
11 The Distortion of American Foreign Policy | 102 |
12 Attacking Terrorism Not Human Rights? | 116 |
13 Protecting Our Arsenals but Promoting Proliferation | 134 |
14 Worshiping the Prince of Peace or Preemptive War? | 146 |
15 Where Are the Major Threats to the Environment? | 164 |
16 The Worlds Greatest Challenge in the New Millennium | 178 |
What Is a Superpower? | 198 |
Acknowledgments | 201 |
8 Would Jesus Approve Abortions and the Death Penalty? | 71 |
9 Must Women Be Subservient? | 86 |
10 Fundamentalism in Government | 94 |
Index | 203 |
About the Author | 213 |
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