In eager anticipation of Murray N. Rothbard’s new masterwork on the Progressive Era scheduled to be published by the Mises Institute in October, let me highly recommend two amazing volumes which will provide you with a mind-boggling, comprehensive historical background preparation of how religion and politics have impacted upon our civilization.
At first glance the reader may think that by the titles of these two books they could not be related, but they are extremely complimentary in their wide sweeping focus upon persons, ideas, movements (and counter-movements) which have shaped who we are, where we have been, and boldly foretell possible futures ahead. This is not the soul-numbing stuff which you learned in school. Both examine highly unorthodox ideas never found in state mandated text books of court history. But they will introduce the reader to a secret world that has been ever present but obscured or hidden from mundane or pedestrian view.
The two books are George McKenna, The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism; and Peter M. Burfeind, Gnostic America: A Reading of Contemporary American Culture & Religion According to Christianity’s Oldest Heresy.
(Burfeind even cites Rothbard while discussing the Progressive Era and the heretical role of postmillennial pietistic Protestant evangelicalism in molding the collectivist ideological dogmas of these enemies of the American republic; McKenna trods much the same unsanctified ground in his captivating analysis of the statist persons and ideas of this period.)
7:15 pm on August 9, 2017
