Rev.
Piazza to Release Sixth Book
The Real Anti-Christ due in December
Since September
11, 2001, the Religious Right has used fear to manipulate America.
It has used 19 terrorists to make us so afraid that we are willing
to abandon our values and do things that are virulently anti-American
and un-Christian. The sale of millions of books in the Left Behind
series, which portrays the Religious Right’s apocalyptic
vision, is just one example of how fear-based religion is foundational
to what is going on in this country. That demon has to be named
and called out if we are to be free of it.
Rev. Michael
S. Piazza, President of Hope for Peace & Justice and Dean
of the Cathedral of Hope, will do just that in his new book,
The Real Anti-Christ. “There IS an anti-Christ and it isn't
Russia or Osama bin Laden,” Rev. Piazza says. “It
isn't even George W. Bush. I believe the real anti-Christ is
the way in which America, and in particular the evangelical church
in America, has come to embody a vision and values that are diametrically
opposite of Jesus, therefore, ‘the Real Anti-Christ.’”
Rev. Piazza
will take the various issues of concern to and talk in lay terms
about:
Where we
are as a country on these issues;
The reasons
why we are there;
Where we
ought to be, based on the teachings of Jesus; and
Since September
11, 2001, the Religious Right has used fear to manipulate America.
It has used 19 terrorists to make us so afraid that we are willing
to abandon our values and do things that are virulently anti-American
and un-Christian. The sale of millions of books in the Left Behind
series, which portrays the Religious Right’s apocalyptic
vision, is just one example of how fear-based religion is foundational
to what is going on in this country. That demon has to be named
and called out if we are to be free of it.