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noteS Introduction 1. www.theocracywatch.org/texas_gop.htm, accessed October 10, 2008. Kevin Phillips asserts that the “Christian nation” platform of the Texas Republican Party was only one of several, mainly in the South and the West. See his American Theocracy (New York: Viking, 2006), 232–33. 2. Richard T. Cooper, “General Casts War in Religious Terms,” www. commondreams.org/headlines03/1016–01.htm, accessed March 28, 2008. 3. Susan Jacoby, Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004), 353. 4. Sermon by Franklin Graham, inaugural prayer service for President George W. Bush, Washington D.C., January 21, 2001, in http://www.angelfire .com/in/HisName/inauguralsermon.html, accessed March 28, 2008. 5. Stanley Fish, “Religion without Truth,” New York Times, May 31, 2007, A27. 6. Chris Hedges, “Christianizing US History,” The Nation 286 (January 28, 2008), 23. 7. John McCain, interview with beliefnet.com, October 1, 1007, http:// www.beliefnet.com/Video/News-and-Politics/John-McCain-2008/John -Mccain-Constitution-Established-A-Christian-Nation.aspx, accessed October 24, 2008. 8. First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America . 9. Christian Smith, Christian America? What Evangelicals Really Want (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 199. 10. Gregory A. Boyd makes this point quite forcefully in his book, The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2005). 11. Tony Norman, “If Ann Coulter’s a Christian, I’ll Be Damned,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06160/696887–153 .stm, accessed February 4, 2008. 12. Ann Coulter, Godless: The Church of Liberalism (New York: Crown Forum, 2006), 99–146; quotes are from 3, 8, and 22, respectively. 13. Coulter, “This Is War” in “National Review Online,” September 13, 188 notes to pages 5–16 2001, at http://www.nationalreview.com/coulter/coulter.shtml, accessed March 28, 2008. 14. For a summary of some of these concerns on the part of the Moral Majority, see John C. Bennett, “Assessing the Concerns of the Religious Right,” Christian Century 98 (October 14, 1981), 1018–22. 15. A. H. Lewis, A Critical History of the Sabbath and the Sunday in the Church (New York, 1886), 495–96, cited in Robert T. Handy, A Christian America: Protestant Hopes and Historical Realities (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), 100. 16. Jacoby, Freethinkers, 105–6. 17. Martin E. Marty, Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America (New York: Dial Press, 1970), 249. 18. Marty, Righteous Empire, 94–95. 19. Ezra Stiles Ely, The Duty of Freemen to Elect Christian Rulers . . . (Philadelphia, 1828), pp. 12, 14, cited in Handy, Christian America, 50. 20. For more information on House Resolution 888, see Hedges, “Christianizing US History,” 23–24. 21. On this point, see Sidney E. Mead, “From Coercion to Persuasion: Another Look at the Rise of Religious Liberty and the Emergence of Denominationalism ,” in The Lively Experiment: The Shaping of Christianity in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), 16–37. 22. Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 226 (1892), as quoted by Joseph Tussman, ed., The Supreme Court on Church and State (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1962), 41. 23. Robert N. Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” Daedalus 96 (Winter 1967), 7. A more recent take on the idea of America’s civil religion—though it avoids using that term—is David Gelernter, Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion (New York: Doubleday, 2007). 24. Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz, America’s Battle for God: A European Christian Looks at Civil Religion (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2007), 19. 25. For a discussion of these cultic dimensions of America’s civic faith, see Bellah, “Civil Religion in America,” 11. 26. For the text of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” along with an analysis, see David Hackett Fischer, Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America’s Founding Ideas (Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2005), 331–32. 27. Winthrop S. Hudson, The Great Tradition of the American Churches (New York: Harper and Row, 1953), 108. 28. Handy, Christian America, 123. Chapter 1. Christian America As God’s Chosen People 1. “We All Must Learn to Forgive, Clergy Say,” Harrisburg Patriot-News, October 6, 2006, A5. 2. On Amish forgiveness in the context of this tragic incident, see Donald Kraybill, David Weaver-Zercher, and Steven M. Nolt, Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007). [18.223.106.232] Project MUSE...

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