Preaching From a Pulpit of Bones: We Need Morality but Not Traditional Morality

This provocative book includes a scathing refutation of the reality behind conservative Christian fundamentalist morality, a critical look at the limitations of "liberation theology," including a discussion of Jim Wallis' book, The Soul of Politics, and an inspiring look at morality from a revolutionary perspective. This work is even more timely today as it was when it was published in 1999. Bob Avakian says in the Prologue that “From whatever vantage point one looks, it is unmistakable that there is what could be called a ‘moral crisis’ in America. There has been, to a significant degree, ‘a breakdown of traditional morality.’ But the answer to this – at least the answer that is in the interests of the majority of people in the U.S. and the overwhelming majority of humanity – is not a more aggressive assertion of that ‘traditional morality’ but winning people to a radically different morality, in the process of radically transforming society and the world as a whole.” Because of the rise of Christian fundamentalism in the U.S., and the debate over religion in general, this book is even more timely today than when it was originally published in 1999. This book is must-read for anyone interested in and engaging Jim Wallis’ books, God's Politics : Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It and The Soul of Politics: Beyond "Religious Right" and "Secular Left."