Recently, Kevin Kruseâ??s One Nation Under God has generated considerable attention for its claims about the way that the 1930s and post-WWII alliance between politically conservative businessmen and evangelicals created modern ideas about â??Christian America.â? According to the bookâ??s self-description, Kruse â??reveals how the unholy alliance of money, religion, and politics created a false origin story that continues to define and divide American politics to this day.â?
One Nation Under God is high on my summer reading list. First, though, Iâ??m reading Timothy Gloegeâ??s Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism. Gloege first, because he studies the half-century before the material in One Nation Under God.
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