[lbo-talk] USA, dumb and dumber

[Jeffrey Fisher]

there is a long history of cultures remaking jesus in their own images, 
to fill their own needs, to answer their own questions and not the 
questions handed down to them by preceding generations. indeed, this is 
a tradition going all the way back to, well, jesus.

for the dime tour, see pelikan's _jesus through the centuries_.

On Saturday, April 3, 2004, at 11:43 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote:


> By Bill Broadway
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Saturday, March 13, 2004; Page B09
>> ... In "American Jesus," Stephen Prothero examines Jesus as folk 
>> hero, a model of faith and action whose image has been shaped by the 
>> attitudes of his religious and nonreligious admirers.
>
> "Jesus in America," by Richard Wrightman Fox, demonstrates how 
> religious leaders and politicians for 200 years have embraced and 
> interpreted Jesus's teachings to validate diametrically opposite views 
> on civil rights, prohibition, war, marriage and other societal issues.