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The Hijacking of Jesus
by Dan Wakefield
“Dan Wakefield has had a long career of fair-minded and important and
meticulously researched journalism. And he crowns that career with
as complete an account and analysis as one could wish, of the capturing
of Jesus Christ as a totem for a few powerful Americans, intent
on becoming powerful all over the world, and by violent and corrupt
means which are anything but Christ-like. The very last words in
this fine book are not by Dan Wakefield but Jesus, his Sermon on
the Mount, not what you would want to call Pat Robertson or Dick
Cheney stuff.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
“A ringing call to liberate the church from its late captivity, Dan Wakefield’s contribution
to the contemporary debate over religion’s role in politics sounds the
promise of a true Christian revival, where justice trumps greed, non-violence
tempers the terrible logic of war, neighborly love answers neighborly
hate, and the Holy Spirit of union displaces demonic icons of division
on altars throughout the land.”
—Forrest Church, author of Freedom from Fear,
Bringing God Home, and The American Creed
In The Hijacking
of Jesus, Dan Wakefield asks how and why the Christian faith
has been so effectively appropriated by the Bush administration. Why
is it that Republicans have become the party of "moral values?" How
is it that mainline Christian denominations and leadership, both Catholic
and Protestant, have remained remarkably silent on the war in Iraq,
the civil rights erosion of the Patriot Act, the growth of poverty,
the Terry Schiavo debacle, and the fact that over 40 million people
now live without health insurance? And how can Christians recapture
and reclaim their faith from the cynical manipulations of Bill Frist,
Tom DeLay, and George W. Bush?
 Hardcover $23.95
Paperback $14.95
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