Sunday, 17 February 2008

quote of week prof jeffrey stout



Quote of the Week: Prof. Jeffrey Stout

FP has been reading Princeton Prof. Jeffrey Stout's wonderful 2004

book, Democracy and Tradition, which we highly recommend. The book

explores a number of key issues in the debate about the role of

religion in U.S. politics. But it also answers a question that has

long troubled me: why do many conservative Christians ignore American

policies that run counter to real Biblical values and instead concern

themselves with nonseense like the phony war on Christmas?

Jeffrey Stout answers our question with one of his own in our quote of

the week:

"The Republican party and the Fox News Network tell American

Christians on a daily basis that they are a beleaguered minority in an

evil, liberal order. Why confront the fact of being a majority


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