This book places the theology and activism of Westboro Baptist Church in the context of American religious history and suggests that Westboro Baptist Church's message of national doom reflects a strand of thought that has always been present in American religion and that remains the source of much of the Religious Right's rhetoric, which is more threatening to democracy than are the uncivil pickets of Westboro Baptists.
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This book places the theology and activism of Westboro Baptist Church in the context of American religious history and suggests that Westboro Baptist Church's message of national doom reflects a strand of thought that has always been present in American religion and that remains the source of much of the Religious Right's rhetoric, which is more threatening to democracy than are the uncivil pickets of Westboro Baptists.
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