
The Gospel of Self
How Jesus Joined the GOP
by Terry Heaton
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Pub Date 22 Jan 2019 | Archive Date 8 Mar 2022
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Description
The bitter political and religious divides we see today in America have roots that go back many decades. The televangelist Pat Robertson was one of the first to determine how battlelines were drawn. Robertson, now a leading and unflinching Trump supporter, rose to national prominence in the 1960s with his Christian Broadcasting Network and his hit show The 700 Club. Terry Heaton, who worked alongside Robertson at The 700 Club and became its executive producer, provides the inside story of how evangelical Christianity forced itself on a needy Republican Party in order to gain political influence on a global level. Using deliberate and strategic social engineering, The 700 Club moved Christians steadily into the Republican Party–and moved the party itself to the right. With a gospel message that appealed to self-interest, The 700 Club violated numerous laws in an attempt to create a Shadow Government of Evangelicals, all in the name of doing God’s work on earth. The results of this longterm campaign were fully on display in the 2016 electoral season.
Advance Praise
"When a former right-hand man of Pat Robertson and one of the key players of the religious right tells you what he really thinks, you'd better listen. I'm grateful for Terry Heaton's courageous new book, The Gospel of Self: How Jesus Joined the GOP. It could not be more timely." —Brian McLaren, author, The Great Spiritual Migration
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9781682190845 |
PRICE | US$10.00 (USD) |