Red Dynamite by Carl R. Weinberg (.ePUB)
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Red Dynamite: Creationism, Culture Wars, and Anticommunism in America by Carl R. Weinberg
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Overview: In Red Dynamite, Carl R. Weinberg argues that creationism’s tenacious hold on American public life depended on culture-war politics inextricably embedded in religion. Many Christian conservatives were convinced that evolutionary thought promoted immoral and even bestial social, sexual, and political behavior. The “fruits” of subscribing to Darwinism were, in their minds, a dangerous rearrangement of God-given standards and the unsettling of traditional hierarchies of power. Despite claiming to focus exclusively on science and religion, creationists were practicing politics. Their anti-communist campaign, often infused with conspiracy theory, gained power from the fact that the Marxist founders, the early Bolshevik leaders, and their American allies were staunch evolutionists.
Using the Scopes “Monkey” Trial as a starting point, Red Dynamite traces the politically explosive union of Darwinism and communism over the next century. Across those years, social evolution was the primary target of creationists, and their “ideas have consequences” strategy instilled fear that shaped the contours of America’s culture wars. By taking the anti-communist arguments of creationists seriously, Weinberg reveals a neglected dimension of anti-evolutionism and illuminates a source of the creationist movement’s continuing strength.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith. beliefs and philosophy
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