With God on Our Side
Subtitle: One Man's War Against an Evangelical Coup in America's Military
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: October 3, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780312361433
Subjects: Biography And Autobiography; Military Sociology; Biography & Autobiography; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Government - U.S. Government; Political Freedom & Security - International Secur; Religion, Politics & State; Political Science / Government / General; Military; Personal Memoirs; Sociology of Religion; 21st century; Church and state; Evangelicalism; Freedom of religion; History; United States
First sentence: On July 29, 2004, Mikey Weinstein took advantage of an unpatrolled stretch of I-25 just outside of Santa Fe to open up his fire-engine-red, five-hundred-horsepower Viper GTS, punching through a glorious desert panorama bathed in bright sunlight.
Description: One of the world's elite educational institutions, the Air Force Academy has, from its inception, attracted the best and the brightest, producing leaders not only in the military but throughout American society. In recent years, however, the Academy has also been producing a cadre of zealous evangelical Christians intent on creating a fundamentalist power base at the highest levels of our country. This book is an expose; of this systematic program of indoctrination. Michael L. Weinstein, a proud Academy graduate and the father of two graduates and a current cadet, brought to light the evangelicals' utter disregard of the constitutional principle of separation of church and state. In the process, he came face to face with religious bigotry and at its most extreme as he fought to save his beloved Academy, the ideals it stood for, and the very future of the country.--From publisher description.