This analysis of current events examines the wrong beliefs America has held supreme—"idols" that are to blame for our nation's decay—and suggests how our culture can be healed.

Herbert Schlossberg

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Acknowledgments

Foreword by Charles W. Colson

Preface by Robert H. Bork

Introduction

CHAPTER ONE / Idols of History

History as a Religious Enterprise

The Cult of Historicism

History as Lord of the Universe

Getting in Step with History

Inevitable Progress

La Trahison des Clercs: History as a Polemical Device

The Historical Profession

The Myth of the Seamless Web

The Christian View of History

God's Actionn in History

Judgment

Judgment and Mercy

Consequences of the Chrisdan View of History

CHAPTER TWO / Idols of Humanity

Human Beings as Gods

The Ethics of Andnomianism

The Function of Law as Ethical Foundation

Subjective Pragmatism

Humanitarianism

Ressentiiqent

Equalitarianism

The Misuse of Guilt

The Poverty Issue

Poverty and Culture

Poverty and Work

Poverty and Dependency

The Curse of Ontological Victimhood

The Poor Countries

Domination by  Classification

The Exercise of Power

Issues of Life and Death

The Degradation of Humanity

The Irrationality of Humanism

Humanism and the Future

CHAPTER THREE / Idols of Mammon

Covetousness and Theft

The Alchemist as Thief

Inflation

The Role of Banking in the Inflationary Process

Politics and Inflation

Inflation as Redistribution

The Consequences of Inflation

Envy and Economics

Morality and Economics

Materialism

Redistribution

Redistribution to the Rich

Redistribution to Business and Industry

The Political Payoff

The Politics of Pressure Groups

The Power of the State over Economic Life

Bureaucratic Domination

Price Controls

Autonomous Officialdom

The Failure to Invest

The Role of Profit in the Economy

The Onset of Poverty

Freedom and Coercion

The Evasion of Evil

The Failure of Mammon

CHAPTER FOUR / Idols of  Nature

Nature and History

Nature as the Whole Show

Science as Religion

Social Science and Philosophical Materialism

The Eclipse of Materialism

Determinism

Social Science as Ideology

Reductionism and the Sociology of Knowledge

Reason as Lord of the Universe

The Triumph of the Irrational

Assault From the East

Nature as Lord of the Universe

The Effects of Naturalist Irrationality

The Cult of Narcissism

A World Become Spooky

Second Face of Janus

Nature in Control

The Riddle of the One and the Many

Prolegomena to Any Christian Epistemology

CHAPTER FTVE / Idols of Power

The  Creadon of Leviathan

God Marching on Earth

Only the State Can Save Us

A Moral Revolution

Our Father, the State

The State as Idol

Creating Utopia

The Rule of the Elite

The New Gnosticism

The Apotheosis of Power

Idols for Destruction

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This analysis of current events examines the wrong beliefs America has held supreme—"idols" that are to blame for our nation's decay—and suggests how our culture can be healed.

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