Our endangered values : America's moral crisis / Jimmy Carter.
Publication details: New York, NY : Simon and Schuster, 2005.Description: x, 212 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780743284578
- Social values -- United States
- Religious fundamentalism -- United States
- Christianity and politics -- United States
- Church and state -- United States
- Church and social problems -- United States
- Human rights -- Government policy -- United States
- United States -- Politics and government -- 2001-2009 -- Moral and ethical aspects
- United States -- Foreign relations -- 2001-2009 -- Moral and ethical aspects
- United States -- Moral conditions
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Includes index. Carter, J. (2005). Our endangered values: America's moral crisis. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster.
Introduction -- America's Common Beliefs--and Strong Differences -- My Traditional Christian Faith -- The Rise of Religious Fundamentalism -- Growing Conflicts Among Religious People -- No Conflict Between Science and Religion -- The Entwining of church and State -- Sins of Divorce and Homosexuality -- Would Jesus Approve Abortions and the Death Penalty? -- Must Women Be Subservient? -- Fundamentalism in Government -- The Distortion of American Foreign Policy -- Attacking Terrorism, Not Human Rights? -- Protecting Our Arsenals, but Promoting Proliferation -- Worshipping the Prince of Peace, or Preemptive War? -- Where Are the Major Threats to the Environment? -- The World's Greatest Challenge in the New Millennium -- Conclusion: What Is a Superpower?
In Our Endangered Values, Jimmy Carter describes quite personally his own involvement and reactions to some disturbing societal trends that have taken place during the past few years. These changes involve both the religious and the political worlds as they have increasingly become intertwined, and include some of the most crucial and controversial issues of the day - frequently encapsulated under 'moral values'. Many of these matters are under fierce debate, and include pre-emptive 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 welding of religion and politics. Carter, sustained by his own lifelong faith, assesses these issues in a forceful and unequivocal, but balanced and courageous way. Our Endangered Values is a book that his millions of readers have eagerly awaited.
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