Caution: Robert McElvaine’s “Grand Theft Jesus” has a problem with facts
posted by Richard Land on 08.08.2008
Topics: book review, books, baptists, history
My latest post to Casting Stones…
During my last semi-weekly [bookstore] browse, I picked up a copy of Grand Theft Jesus, by Robert McElvaine, subtitled “The Hijacking of Religion in America.” Imagine my surprise at finding that I was mentioned on at least 10 pages, although never in a favorable light. That’s OK—everybody is entitled to their own opinion. However, as the late great Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan so famously said, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but they are not entitled to their own facts.” Indeed.
I won’t bother to take issue with most of the scurrilous accusations made against me and many other Christian leaders in Grand Theft Jesus. I will, however, point out two places where the author’s facts are 100 percent wrong. I will then leave readers to draw their own conclusions about how they should judge the other alleged “facts” in this diatribe masquerading as a book…