Our Endangered Values
eBook - ePub

Our Endangered Values

America's Moral Crisis

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Our Endangered Values

America's Moral Crisis

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Introduction
  4. 1. Americaā€™s Common Beliefsā€”and Strong Differences
  5. 2. My Traditional Christian Faith
  6. 3. The Rise of Religious Fundamentalism
  7. 4. Growing Conflicts Among Religious People
  8. 5. No Conflict Between Science and Religion
  9. 6. The Entwining of Church and State
  10. 7. Sins of Divorce and Homosexuality
  11. 8. Would Jesus Approve Abortions and the Death Penalty?
  12. 9. Must Women Be Subservient?
  13. 10. Fundamentalism in Government
  14. 11. The Distortion of American Foreign Policy
  15. 12. Attacking Terrorism, Not Human Rights?
  16. 13. Protecting Our Arsenals, but Promoting Proliferation
  17. 14. Worshiping the Prince of Peace, or Preemptive War?
  18. 15. Where Are the Major Threats to the Environment?
  19. 16. The Worldā€™s Greatest Challenge in the New Millennium
  20. 17. Conclusion: What Is a Superpower?
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. About Jimmy Carter
  23. Index
  24. Copyright