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A review by kwheeles
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America by Kevin M. Kruse
2.0
Describes the rise of the anti-progressive influence in Christian America. Makes the case that the view of America as a 'Christian nation' is a post-Depression phenomenon that has strengthened over time (and built an inferred past - history is written by the winners).
It doesn't explicitly address how American Christians seem to have thrown out the good stuff (inclusiveness, brother's keeper, golden rule, etc.) in favor of low taxes ("I've got mine. Screw everyone else."), individualism ("Go get your own."), nativism (not of the European blood and soil type, kinda funny - Europeans like me came here and wiped out the natives that offered up their immune systems as an easy target), and tribalism (some of that Old Testament, God-fearing, damnation on all those unlike us).
It doesn't explicitly address how American Christians seem to have thrown out the good stuff (inclusiveness, brother's keeper, golden rule, etc.) in favor of low taxes ("I've got mine. Screw everyone else."), individualism ("Go get your own."), nativism (not of the European blood and soil type, kinda funny - Europeans like me came here and wiped out the natives that offered up their immune systems as an easy target), and tribalism (some of that Old Testament, God-fearing, damnation on all those unlike us).