Sacred Liberty

America's Long, Bloody, and Ongoing Struggle for Religious Freedom

By: Steven Waldman

Narrated by: David Colacci

Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's Summary

Sacred Liberty offers a dramatic, sweeping survey of how America built a unique model of religious freedom, perhaps the nation’s “greatest invention”. Steven Waldman, the best-selling author of Founding Faith, shows how early ideas about religious liberty were tested and refined amid the brutal persecution of Catholics, Baptists, Mormons, Quakers, African slaves, Native Americans, Muslims, Jews, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. American leaders drove religious freedom forward - figures like James Madison, George Washington, the World War II presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, and Eisenhower) and even George W. Bush. But the biggest heroes were the regular Americans - people like Mary Dyer, Marie Barnett, and W. D. Mohammed - who risked their lives or reputations by demanding to practice their faiths freely.  

Just as the documentary Eyes on the Prize captured the rich drama of the civil rights movement, Sacred Liberty brings to life the remarkable story of how America became one of the few nations in world history that has religious freedom, diversity and high levels of piety at the same time. Finally, Sacred Liberty provides a road map for how, in the face of modern threats to religious freedom, this great achievement can be preserved.

©2019 Steven Waldman (P)2019 HarperAudio

Indefensible Liberal Bias

If cherry-picking were an Olympic Sport, Steve Waldman would have earned a gold. His unashamed bias skews his interpretation so harshly, it is difficult to digest his overall presentation.

Without offering a real debate, Waldman merely dismisses Conservative Christian values as either bigoted or out of date. His smugness and condescension towards Evangelicals smacks of the arrogant intolerance typical of modern liberals. Of course, presuming his own enlightenment, he assumed a voice of moral authority that he not only lacks, but seems to have no foundation to support- save his own opinion.

Typical liberal propaganda dressed in historical anecdotes! Read with caution, coffee and a double dose of critical evaluation.

Great insights

Steven Waldman writes a wonderful chronicle on our evolution on religious freedom in this country. Mob rule, ignorance, and narcissistic tendencies are alive and well in America. I wonder if religion causes ignorance or intolerance or is the consequence of blind faith???