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I just finished reading a pretty fantastic book by Arthur McGill called Life and Death: An American Theology. He is one of those authors that have a way of packing the entire content of their message into every sentence they write. So, if you care to read this book, be ready to be [...]

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Arthur McGill, in a phenomenal book entitled Life and Death: An American Theology, makes the argument that the ethos of America at large is marked by a fatal need to extinguish all visible signs of death from its existence. This, for him, is motivated by an ultimate fear of death, wherein one believes it [...]

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At the risk of glaring selectivity, I must nevertheless point out three predominant features of the American mythos: 1) Liberty, by which we mean self-determination, freedom from the external demands of others; 2) Prosperity, by which we mean the possession of expendable wealth; and 3) Security, by which we mean the extermination of all threats [...]

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Barak Obama, as far as I can tell (which knowledge comes from scanning his book for about half an hour at Costco) is a good man, and a genuine Christian. From his stump speech, he is much more optimistic about the potential of Americanism than I am but there are quite a few things [...]

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