| "The Christian President" observes how Christianity should serve as a blueprint for peace and not as a justification for war.
Book Questions Spirituality and Politics of the Christian Right
Tom Lombardo's The Christian President: What Jesus Would Have Done is a startling account of how Christian beliefs and following the direct teachings of Jesus can completely change history. What if on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. president had been a man who believed that Jesus was a radical spiritual teacher? What would have happened if the president supposed Jesus wanted him to lead the world away from war? Lombardo addresses these inquiries in his thoughtful and timely tale.
Millions of Americans are outraged at the Bush administration's domestic and foreign policies and even angrier that the nation's religious conservatives have touted these policies as representative of moral values. Lombardo begins his book the morning after the direct attack on America and details the spiritually-inclined decisions made by a fictional, yet relatable, President Craftsman when guiding the United States. The author suggests that things would have been different if the spirituality of the country's leadership had not been so deeply infused with the belief that the "end of the world" was right around the corner.
For anyone who can sense that there is something wrong with the way Christianity is being used by the Christian Right, The Christian President: What Jesus Would Have Done is as thought-provoking as it is enlightening. In an easy-to-read story, Lombardo presents a different view of how a Christian leader might react to the geopolitical and social problems today.
Raised Catholic, Tom Lombardo has devoted his life to the study of religion. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, he manages the website www.tothinkishuman.com, which produces a weekly magazine of individually-selected passages for subscribers from world literature, scripture, history, and philosophy. He lives in Petaluma, Calif. with his wife and two children.
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