@article{322269,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Wakefield, Dan.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/322269},
      title = {The hijacking of Jesus : how the religious right distorts  Christianity and promotes violence and hate /},
      publisher = {Nation Books,},
      abstract = {"Christianity in America has become almost synonymous with  right-wing fanaticism, conservative politics, and -  courtesy of Mel Gibson - a brutally sadistic version of the  religious experience. Millions of devout Christians, like  Dan Wakefield, are appalled by this distortion of their  faith, which only three decades ago stood for peace,  equality, healing, and compassion for society's outcasts -  the issues that made up the ministry of Jesus." "How did it  come to pass that the Jesus who preached the Sermon on the  Mount has in effect been hijacked by right-wingers and the  Republican Party? Dan Wakefield travels across America in  search of answers, meeting evangelical Christians, visiting  the new mega-churches, finding "a cultish kind of  Christianity as dangerous as it is distorted," showing how  right wingers supported by wealthy foundations are using  "wedge issues" - homosexuality and abortion - to destroy  the fabric of traditional mainline Protestantism."--BOOK  JACKET.},
      recid = {322269},
      pages = {210 p. ;},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2006},
}