num_pages: 336
description: The Baptizing of Politics, Piety, and the Coming Theocracy exposes the systematic campaign by Christian fundamentalists to co-opt and take over every "room" of American society from the bedroom to the school room, hospital room, operating room, courtroom, work room, reading room and newsroom. This book focuses on the aggressive war currently being led by fundamentalist Christians to "baptize America." It is a battle that will determine whether the United States remains a spiritually vital country but without an officially established religion, or whether it will become "Christianized," a "faith-based nation" in which fundamentalist Christianity will be the sole legal dominant religion throughout the land. The war will decide whether America follows the path of many other nations and becomes a theocracy not unlike Iran and the former Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
language: English
title: The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us
titlecomplete: The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right's Plans for the Rest of Us
genres: Nonfiction, Politics, Religion
ratings_count: 26
publisher: Basic Books