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Encounter author David Brog defends Western civilization, Judeo-Christian tradition on Newsmax.TVReligious faith is under assault. In books and movies and on television, militant secular critics attack religion with a renewed vigor. These "new atheists" repeat a two-part mantra: that religious faith is hopelessly irrational and that those possessed of such faith are responsible for the hatred and bloodshed that has plagued humanity. Abandon religion, they urge us, and the world will at last live in peace.
Brog lives and writes in Washington, D.C. He worked in the U.S. Senate for seven years, rising to be chief of staff to a senior Senator and staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Prior to his time on Capitol Hill, Brog served as an executive at America Online and practiced corporate law in Tel Aviv and Philadelphia.
Brog's In Defense of Faith rebuts the fashionable arguments against religion and presents the strong and lasting record of the Judeo-Christian idea -- from the Christian activists who fought to stop the genocide of Indians in South America and their ethnic cleansing in North America, to the abolition of African slavery on both sides of the Atlantic, and on to modern human rights activists from Martin Luther King, Jr., to the rock star Bono.
Brog told Newsmax's Rossomando that people of faith share the grass-roots Tea Party movement's belief in limited government and personal responsibility and are trying to preserve those values. "I'd like to see people of faith take a greater role in the tea party," Brog said. "I'd like to see the tea party's message be one of compassion, be one of concern, not one of apathy."
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