Divining America: Religion and the National Culture

This Divining America site from the National Humanities Center is just fantastic. [homepage here]. In my previous post I linked to the same site's Puritanism page. This post links to a page by Grant Wacker of Duke Divinity School about the modern day Christian Right. He lays out the ideological cornerstones with clarity, and I've briefly summarized them here: The Christian right affirms the absolute certainty of moral absolutes; assumes that morality, politics, and culture are inseperable; asserts that the proper role of government is cultural/moral intervention and economic non-intervention; and insists on the legitimation of Judeo-Christian values, coupled with a delegitimation of secular and other religious values. Christian right wingers suffer from a grand persecution complex: everywhere are bogeypersons out to get them: the liberal media, the public schools, intellectual elites, Hollywood, the federal government, the United Nations, feminists, socialists, activist judges, junk lawsuit lawyers, non-white people, and the French.