God and Ronald Reagan: A Spiritual Life - Paul Kengor Audiobook
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1980s
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Ronald Reagan is hailed today for a presidency that restored optimism to America, engendered years of economic prosperity, and helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union. Yet until now little attention has been paid to the role Reagan’s personal spirituality played in his political career, shaping his ideas, bolstering his resolve, and ultimately compelling him to confront the brutal — and, not coincidentally, atheistic — Soviet empire.
In this groundbreaking book, political historian Paul Kengor draws upon Reagan’s legacy of speeches and correspondence, and the memories of those who knew him well, to reveal a man whose Christian faith remained deep and consistent throughout his more than six decades in public life. Raised in the Disciples of Christ Church by a devout mother with a passionate missionary streak, Reagan embraced the church after reading a Christian novel at the age of eleven. A devoted Sunday-school teacher, he absorbed the church’s model of “practical Christianity” and strived to achieve it in every stage of his life.
But it was in his lifelong battle against communism — first in Hollywood, then on the political stage — that Reagan’s Christian beliefs had their most profound effect. Appalled by the religious repression and state-mandated atheism of Bolshevik Marxism, Reagan felt called by a sense of personal mission to confront the USSR. Inspired by influences as diverse as C.S. Lewis, Whittaker Chambers, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, he waged an openly spiritual campaign against communism, insisting that religious freedom was the bedrock of personal liberty. “The source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual,” he said in his Evil Empire address. “And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow man.”
From a church classroom in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, to his triumphant mission to Moscow in 1988, Ronald Reagan was both political leader and spiritual crusader. God and Ronald Reagan deepens immeasurably our understanding of how these twin missions shaped his presidency — and changed the world.
Listening Length: 9 hours and 38 minutes
https://www.amazon.com/God-Ronald-Reagan-Spiritual-Life/dp/B084T69R2W
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/508360.God_and_Ronald_Reagan
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 3/5
November 1st, 2020
What part of the bible inspired Iran/Contra. Did it inspire getting Iran to hold the hostages through the election or just trafficking cocaine? Or was it the Contra death squads? ffs
November 1st, 2020
Bitter hate gets you nowhere.
November 1st, 2020
Interesting how a “spiritual leader” would not lift a finger to help when AIDS was sweeping across America. Because, you know, gays.
Reagan and Thatcher. They were monsters.
November 1st, 2020
Paul Kengor wrote a book claiming that Karl Marx was a literal Satan worshipper (fact check: he wasn’t), and another book explicating Obama’s supposed connection to an ostensible communist named Frank Marshall Davis. It’s all very bizarre stuff.
But if you think Dinesh D’Souza is a reliable historian, this might be the book for you.
November 1st, 2020
Right wing nut tipe. They want you to believe they own morality, defense and security. They are none of the above.
When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a bible…
November 1st, 2020
Ronnie Ray-Gun was at least right about Marxism/the profoundly “evil empire” - it fair makes one nostalgic for the days when politicians could even be right about one thing. A phenomenon now with which to regale one’s incredulous grandchildren.
November 2nd, 2020
Another worshipful tome from the Republican cultists to spokes-president Ronny. Harry Truman won the Cold War by not starting a hot one. Communism failed because it was inherently stupid, not evil and it simply could not deliver on its promises. The lunatic right’s faith in “Magical Markets” is just as dumb as the communists’ belief in the “Magical Proletariat”.
November 2nd, 2020
Détente was propping up & perpetuating the whole rotten, stupid, evil system. A policy which, much like the toxic ideology in focus, had substantially run its “functional” course.
Hastening the end - for Eastern Europe, in particular, which had been delivered from the maw of one evil/stupid ideology, right into the jaws of another - was imperative.
Helpful to recall that the evil and the stupid were inextricably/doctrinally bound together in that frosty Utopia.
Also that the War did not remain Cold in many parts of the globe, in spite of Harry’s laudable efforts to the contrary.
November 2nd, 2020
Détente was propping up & perpetuating the whole rotten, stupid, evil system. A policy which, much like the toxic ideology in focus, had substantially run its “functional” course.
Hastening the end - for Eastern Europe, in particular, which had been delivered from the maw of one evil/stupid ideology, right into the jaws of another - was imperative.
Helpful to recall that the evil and the stupid were inextricably/doctrinally bound together in that frosty Utopia. And stupid, in and of itself, does not always conveniently collapse to order.
Also that the War did not remain Cold in many parts of the globe, in spite of Harry’s laudable efforts to the contrary.
November 2nd, 2020
Who?
November 2nd, 2020
Détente was propping up & perpetuating the whole rotten, stupid, evil system. A policy which, much like the toxic ideology in focus, had substantially run its “functional” course.
Hastening the end - for Eastern Europe, in particular, which had been delivered from the maw of one evil/stupid ideology, right into the jaws of another - was imperative.
Helpful to recall that the evil and the stupid were inextricably/doctrinally bound together in that frosty Utopia. And stupid, in and of itself, does not always conveniently collapse to order.
Also, that the War did not remain Cold in many parts of the globe, in spite of Harry’s laudable efforts to the contrary.
November 2nd, 2020
Hate it when that happens - that happens - happens…
November 2nd, 2020
November 13th, 2020
Thank you! Appreciate the share :)
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