America's secular challenge
Subtitle: the rise of a new national religion
By: by Herbert London.
Series: Brief encounters
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781594032271
Subjects: United States -- Religion
Description: "In this book, one of America's leading public intellectuals argues that the rise of radical secularism in the United States is a flaccid response to the challenge presented by the fanaticism of radical Islam. In the so-called war of ideas, our reflexive belief in relativism has handicapped our ability to thwart the inroads of fanaticism." "America's Secular Challenge is a sobering wake-up call and a battle plan for the political and existential trials of the twenty-first century."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Secularism : America's new religion; title: Truth as a relative concept; title: The limitations of science; title: Government's rationalist largesse; title: Patriotism as a moral problem; title: Tolerance, discrimination, and discernment; title: Conclusion.