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"The book that has sparked a vigorous national debate about the state of American religion, praised by Timothy Keller as \u201Cprovocative\u201D and \u201Ccompelling,\u201D while The New York Times says \u201CDouthat attacks nonsense on both the cultural right and left\u2026responsible and fair,\u201D and the Washington Times raves \u201Ca superb documentation of America\u2019s crisis of faith,\u201D now in paperback. AS THE YOUNGEST-EVER OP-ED COLUMNIST FOR The New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and forceful account of how American Christianity has lost its way\u2014and why it threatens to take American society with it. In a world populated by \u201Cpray and grow rich\u201D gospels and Christian cults of self-esteem, Ross Douthat argues that America\u2019s problem isn\u2019t too much religion; nor is it intolerant secularism. Rather, it\u2019s bad religion. Conservative and liberal, political and pop cultural, traditionally religious and fashionably \u201Cspiritual\u201D\u2014Christianity\u2019s place in American life has increasingly been taken over, not by atheism, but by heresy: debased versions of Christian faith that stroke our egos, indulge our follies, and encourage our worst impulses. In a brilliant and provocative story that moves from the 1950s to the age of Obama, Douthat explores how bad religion has crippled the country\u2019s ability to confront our most pressing challenges and accelerated American decline."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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