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The unholy alliance of the Political Right and Religious Right threatens to destroy the America we love. It also threatens to generate a popular aversion to God and religion by identifying religious values with a pro war, pro business, pro rich, anti science, and anti environmental stance. In the past few decades, the Republicans have achieved political dominance by forging a union with a Religious Right that provided a sanctimonious veneer to policies that help the rich get richer while ignoring the needs of the middle class and the poor, dismantling environmental and civil liberties protections, and seeking global domination. The Right champions the materialism, and ruthless selfishness promoted by the global competitive marketplace, and then laments the moral crisis when the values that people have learned all day in the world of work gets carried home into personal life and contributes to family instability and a culture of loneliness. Enter the Religious Right with nurturing communities for the faithful and a culture that blames liberals, activist judges, and all secular people for the moral and spiritual emptiness so many Americans experience. Yet however distorted the Right's analysis and solutions to America's spiritual crisis is, it wins allegiance by addressing this hunger for a life with some higher purpose. The Left, on the other hand, remains largely tone deaf to the spiritual needs of the American people.

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"An enormously important book.practical steps we can take to launch a spiritual revolution and save this beautiful planet." -- Robert Thurman

"Lerner articulates . a vision of hope that taps into the spiritual needs of all people." -- Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, Chair of the Progressive Caucus of the U.S. House of Representatives

"A highly decent and challenging critique." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Part social critique, part save-the-world primer, The Left Hand of God brims with hopeful proposals."--Houston Chronicle

"A book that sends a clear call to everyone who cares about the future of America."--Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Just sharing these profound ideas that Lerner presents in such an accessible manner is itself a great contribution you could make to healing our country"--Cornel West, author of Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism

"Lerner is a rare voice of sanity and intelligence in a nation where our moral values have been corrupted ...."--Howard Zinn

"Rabbi Lerner makes sense, finds meaning and sees hope in an America many feel is spiraling downward into destructive divisions."--Harvey Cox

"Lerner's needed voice for progressive spirituality will find resonance across many faith traditions. I'm deeply grateful for his work."--Brian McLaren, author of A New Kind of Christian

"For those who dare to imagine a country where peace, freedom, and justice prevail...."--Spirituality and Health magazine
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Rabbi Michael Lerner is an internationally renowned social theorist, theologian, psychotherapist, and the editor of Tikkun magazine. He earned a PhD in philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, and in clinical psychology from the Wright Institute. Lerner is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun synagogue, which meets in San Francisco and Berkeley.

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  • Publication date2007
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  • ISBN 13 9780061146626
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