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Shopping for God

The Turning: An interview with with former world heavyweight atheist, Professor Antony Bird. More on Christopher Hitchens's God Is Not Great. A dangerous delusion: By thinking of religion in terms of evolutionary theory we can see just how and why the major religions of today are so harmful. From Christianity Today, an article on answering the atheists; and a poll: What do you think is the most compelling argument for Christianity? If God is one and the Christian faith is the true understanding of God's revelation, why are there so many other religions? Roots of fundamentalism traced to 16th-century Bible translations: The English Reformation—heyday of religious change—spurred a fundamentalist approach to Bible reading, according to new research. Meet the Mormons: From the margin to the mainstream. Allan J. Lichtman on crisis and change in the Christian Right movement: Whither American conservatism? An interview with James Twitchell, author of Shopping for God: How Christianity Went From in Your Heart to in Your Face. For a growing movement of believers, an activist faith means more than proselytizing about Jesus and stoking the fires of our culture wars. Welcome to the new (and yes, liberal) world of evangelical Christianity. The first chapter from Christian Political Ethics.