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u/DaisyKitty · 588 pointsr/esist

In case anyone is not aware, the tweeter, Kevin Kruse, is imo one of our greatest living American historians, currently at Princeton University. His book
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America is a must read for anyone truly seeking to understand the origins of the left/right divide in this country. It's a history of an insidious intrigue to oppose any social program, which Kruse has laid out with meticulous documentation. It really is breathtaking the way he handles the material.

Imo, you really can't thoroughly understand where we are now, with out reading this book. I can't recommend it enough. Here's his webpage, which has a link to an interview he did with Terry Gross on NPRs Fresh Air. The interview was great and it gives you the gist of the book:

https://history.princeton.edu/people/kevin-m-kruse

u/saijanai · 390 pointsr/technology

In the USA, the profit-motive and religion have been conflated over the years (read One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America for more info).

u/rnaa49 · 141 pointsr/politics

No war criminal, but he, and his VP Nixon, started the myth that America was founded on Christian beliefs, and "encouraged" the military to behave like Crusaders. Soon thereafter, defense contractors began currying his favor by proclaiming similar claptrap. Eventually, Big Business got in on the action, to cash in on the Cold War between God-fearing America vs. Godless Russia.

Source: One Nation Under God

u/NewtsHemorrhoids · 115 pointsr/atheism

It is Christian libertarianism.

Bought and paid for by corporates. Pete is the alternate CL. Its apostles to billionaires. ^[1]

>The members of the First Congregational Church were mostly among the wealthy, giving Fifield the nickname "The Apostle to Millionaires". The Church from 1937 to 1942 paid substantial money to Spiritual Mobilization.

u/best_of_badgers · 64 pointsr/esist

You likely grew up in the weird fusion of American Southern culture and a specific brand (Baptist evangelical) of Christianity. Most Christians are not American. They're not even mostly white. They're not even mostly male.

Here's a good book about the history if anyone is really interested.

And here's another.

u/unlimitedzen · 62 pointsr/ShitLiberalsSay

Yes. 'Murica has worked hard over the last century to demonize socialism in all of its forms. One of the more recent books I read about it was One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin Kruse. He also had a good interview on NPR about it.

u/g0aliegUy · 8 pointsr/TrueReddit

Fantastic book. Historian Kevin Kruse has one as well that talks about how big business got in bed with the evangelicals in the 1930s/1940s as a reaction to FDRs New Deal. Prior to the Depression, most evangelicals were focused on social justice and workers rights, and thought the government should have a greater role in helping the poor.

Both evangelicals and big business feared the rise of a godless federal state. This is where the Religious Right laid its roots... it's why we have In God We Trust on our money, One Nation Under God in the pledge, and the National Prayer Breakfast. It was all a part of a revivalist movement that began to marry rugged individualism and Christian evangelicalism.

It includes some revealing chapters on the influence of Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell on US Presidents.

One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America

u/JimWilliams423 · 2 pointsr/atheism

> as a reaction to communism I believe.

Sort of. More like a reaction to the New Deal. The definitive history of the phrase is the book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America.

Abridged version is that the corporate fatcats tried to co-opt christianity in order to try to undo the New Deal which they labeled socialism. They put a lot of money into the effort, effectively kickstarting the religious-right. All that corporate money is how guys like Billy Graham got their start.

Here's an NPR interview with the author.

u/Jimhead89 · 2 pointsr/politics
u/59179 · 2 pointsr/atheism

Wat? "So, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"

How about the capitalists? Have you read this book? It lays out how and why "we are a christian nation" is a thing.

u/MitchSnyder · 1 pointr/Anarchism