All posts by Rabbi A. James Rudin

Rabbi A. James Rudin is the American Jewish Committee’s senior interreligious adviser. He was nominated for 2016 Pulitzer Prize for: "Pillar of Fire: A Biography of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise". His latest book is  “The People In The Room: Rabbis, Nuns, Pastors, Popes, and Presidents” (IPubGlobal Communications/ ISBN 1948575566). 

Perspective on Christian Nationalism – by A. James Rudin

Baptizing America Revisited

Rabbi RudinA specter is haunting America and it is not socialism and certainly not communism. It’s the obscene specter of Americans being forced to kneel in submission to an extremist “winner take all” religious ideology seeking to transform the United States into a “Christian nationalist” country where Christian supremacy in its many forms supersedes all human laws – including and especially the American Constitution.

In my book “The Baptizing of America: The Religious Right’s Plans For The Rest Of Us (Thunder’s Mouth Press 2006), I warned that a well-financed and highly organized group of religious and political leaders was seeking to impose their narrow radical beliefs and harsh public policies on the US, even as our nation’s population was increasingly multireligious, multiethnic, and multiracial.

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