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Religious and civic authority weaponized to burden the vulnerable while exempting the powerful — traced from the founding to the present day.
The book's central claim is that this is not new. The same identifiable pattern — a moral and religious language turned against the very people it claims to serve — runs from American slavery's biblical defense, through the theology of segregation and the suppression of the vote, into the specific institutions, alliances, and figures of the present moment. This timeline lets you watch the pattern recur. Filter by thread to isolate a single strand, or view them together to see one architecture across three centuries.
The timeline shows the recurrence. The book explains why it recurs — why religious authority, captured by narcissistic egoism, turns with documented regularity against the values of the tradition it claims. The American Antichrist and the Apotheosis of Self-Interest: A Warning from an Elder Democracy.