Garry Wills has an interesting review of Jimmy Carter's latest book, "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis". Wills attempts to show what he sees as the fundamental point of the book: today's Christian fundamentalism is a culture of death. He goes on to write about how this fundamentalism has exacerbated problems in areas such as abortion, gun control, capital punushment, nuclear proliferation and spreading democracy.
In his understanding of Carter's views, Wills claims that a large part of the problem is due to the conflation of politics and religion. There is considerable merit in this analysis, I believe.
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