Empires of Dirt: Secularism Radical Islam and the Mere Christendom Alternative

As it self-destructs the strategy of secularism (the idea that nations can be religiously neutral) is splitting between American exceptionalism and radical Islam. American exceptionalism the belief that America is more than a nation is folly. Radical Islam is obviously wrong as well but Muslims at least own the nature of the current cultural conflict: You must follow somebody whether its Allah the State or Jesus Christ. This important and timely book is an analysis of the changing face of religion and politics and also an extended argument for Christian expression of faith in Jesus Christ. This does not mean a withdrawal from politics to our own communities and churches. Instead we Christians must take what we have learned from the wreck of secularism and build a Christendom of the New Foundation: A network of nations bound together by a formal public civic acknowledgement of the lordship of Jesus Christ and the fundamental truth of the Apostles Creed.