Backfired

by William J. Federer

Book Overview

The faith that gave birth to tolerance is no longer tolerated! * Ten Commandments taken down, "Under God" removed from Pledge, Prayer prohibited, Nativity Scenes banned, Religious Art & Music... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975345540
• ISBN13: 9780975345542
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Amerisearch, Inc.
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Good Resource for Historical Documentation on the Theme

Local St. Louis patriot and statesman William J. Federer writes a book that shows how American religious tolerance has evolved from "Puritans to Protestants to Catholics to Liberal Christians to Jews to Monotheists to Polytheists to All Religions to Atheists, to ONLY POLITICALLY CORRECT"... He asks questions such as "How did America go from Pilgrims seeking freedom to express their Judeo-Christian beliefs to today's discrimination against those very beliefs in the name of tolerance?" This book is comprised mostly of primary documents - there are 379 endnotes for the 287 pages! It is a good resource for thinking through the historical development of this concept of tolerance. Mr. Federer has done us a service by compiling these resources together under this theme. Mr. Federer is a local hero to conservatives - he went against the mighty political machinery and bankroll of Dick Gephardt - 3 times losing in the November election, but 3 times giving us a strong candidate to root for nonetheless.

Back Fired: A Nation...

This book was an eye opener and very informative about our nation's Christian heritage being the reason we are tolerate of all religion.

Indespensible Research Tool for TRUE, Documented, CHRISTIAN, U.S. History!

This is a great starting point for anybody looking to research the founding of the USA and the Christian influence that was indelibly etched in the hearts of the vast majority of our country's founding fathers! This book excavates long-forgotten and ignored historical documents that refer to Christianity. It is very exhaustive and in-depth. The footnotes section shows you where you can find these documents, so that this book is not your only reference--just where to find the best quotes. God will get the foolish athiests in the end, for sure, but William J. Federer's book, BACKFIRED: A NATION BORN FOR RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE NO LONGER TOLERATES RELIGION, will help us out, today, to set the record straight. This book is not perfect. It could use a little more editorial and aesthetic polish. The author is more like a bare-bones editor, introducing the next set of quotes with very minimal fanfare. He lets the quotes speak for themselves, but I wish he would have added a little more background and by-the-way information to make the book a little less dry. An editor could easily give a writer this book and say, "Here, go write something truthful and good about the Christian influence on the founding of the USA," and the writer would find plenty of ammunition from this book to do a great piece on the topic. There are definitely some gems to be found, especially when the author quotes the most famous Americans, like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. In the case of Thomas Jefferson's historically and hysterically misquoted "separation of church and state" comment that appeared in a PERSONAL letter, (NOT in the First Amendment), but has been the foundation for athiests destroying the Christian influence in our public institutions, via judicial tyranny and activism in our courts; it is especially interesting to see documentation of Jefferson ordering Christian activities on public government property, which today would generate a lawsuit from the highly litigious, immoral, anti-Christian organizations of today. At any rate, in this day and age in the USA, where fundamental atheism is the (un)official state religious view--to the detriment of our public schools and institutions swearing that the USA has been and must always be a Godless nation; this book puts the truth to the lies of the radical athiest movement. Fight the Good Fight! Our country got messed up in the last 60 years, largely because good Christians stood silent while the media and atheists told us lies, and nobody spoke out against them. This book will help you speak out against the lies about the founding of the USA. Get this book to help yourself make more convincing points in the culture wars.