[bookshare-discuss] Book Submitted: Tempting Faith

From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:09:03 -0400
Hi you all,

here is a book from the wishlist, and i didn't read it all the way through 
so it needs some TLC.  But the rank spelling was at 99.78% accuracy so I 
figure it was pretty good.  headers need removed.

But it is submitted, oh, fix the title, there is a stray "l" in the title I 
didn't notice it until I got the Thank you message.

Here is the Book jacket information for this book:
Tempting Faith: Inside Story of political Suduction
From the Book Jacket:
David Kuo came to Washington wanting to use his Christian faith to end 
abortion, strengthen marriage, and help the poor. He reached the heights of 
political power, ultimately serving in the White House under George W. Bush, 
after being policy adviser to John Ashcroft and speechwriter for Ralph Reed, 
Pat Robertson, and Bob Dole. It was a dream come true: the chance to fuse 
his politics and his faith, and an opportunity for Christians not just to 
gain a seat at the proverbial table but to plan the entire meal.

Kuo spent nearly three years as second in command at the president's Office 
of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives. Yet his experience was deeply 
troubling. It took both the Bush White House and a severe health crisis to 
show him how his Christian values, and those of millions of Americans, were 
being corrupted by politics.

Instead of following the teachings of Jesus to serve the needy, Kuo found 
himself helping to manipulate religious faith for political gain. Public 
funds were used in battleground states, for Republican campaign events. The 
legislative process was used as a football, not to pass laws but to deepen 
purely symbolic fault lines. Grants were incestuously recycled to political 
cronies. Both before and after 9/11, despite lofty rhetoric from the 
president claiming that his faith-based program was one of his most 
important initiatives, there was no serious attempt to fund valuable 
charities.

Worst of all was the prevailing attitude in the White House and throughout 
Washington toward Christian leaders. Key Bush aides and Republican 
operatives spoke of them with contempt and treated them as useful idiots. It 
became clear, during regular conference calls arranged
from the White House with a key group of Christian leaders, that many of 
these religious leaders had themselves been utterly seduced by politics.

It is time, Kuo argues, for Christians to take a temporary step back from 
politics, to turn away from its seductions. Tempting Faith is equal parts 
headline-making exposé, political and spiritual memoir, and heartfelt plea 
for a Christian reexamination of political involvement.
David Kuo served as Special Assistant to the President under George W. Bush 
from 2001 to 2003. He has worked for numerous conservative leaders, 
including John Ashcroft, William Bennett, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, and Ralph 
Reed. He is the author of the Good Morning America Book Club selection 
Dot.Coming: My Days and Nights at an Internet Goliath. He currently serves 
as the Washington editor of the Beliefnet Web site.


Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
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