{"id":27,"date":"2007-04-30T15:00:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-30T02:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rad.net.nz\/blog\/archives\/26"},"modified":"2007-04-30T15:00:53","modified_gmt":"2007-04-30T02:00:53","slug":"theocons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2007\/04\/30\/theocons\/","title":{"rendered":"Theocons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=r06c-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0385516479&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr&#038;npa=1\">http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=r06c-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0385516479&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr&#038;npa=1<\/a>I have just finished reading <em>The Theocons: Secular American Under Seige<\/em> by Damon Linker. While an interesting read, with valuable insights into the thinking of some theocons (especially <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_John_Neuhaus\">Neuhaus<\/a>), it didn&#8217;t really live up to it&#8217;s name. Secular America is not under seige &#8211; the theocons do not want to get rid of democracy or establish a church. For example, wanting to change abortions laws is not undemocratic. Nor is America secular. They may have no state religion, but religion plays a major part in Americans&#8217; self-understanding and public life already, and has done for years. This book is another example of the confusion between liberalism and democracy that I criticise in my unpublished essay on the subject.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=r06c-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0385516479&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr&#038;npa=1I have just finished reading The Theocons: Secular American Under Seige by Damon Linker. While an interesting read, with valuable insights into the thinking of some theocons (especially Neuhaus), it didn&#8217;t really live up to it&#8217;s name. Secular America is not under seige &#8211; the theocons do not want to get rid of democracy or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,51,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-politics","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}