If You Can Keep It
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Eric Metaxas offers a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless people truly understand what their founding fathers meant for them to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the 'noble experiment in ordered liberty' that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgotten - and in doing so it lays out our own responsibility to live those ideals and carry on those freedoms. Metaxas believes America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based upon liberty and freedom.
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Metaxas is a skilled writer and makes the important point that the success of our system of government requires strong moral values. The problem is, he argues solely for Protestant Christian values and doesn't allow for the possibility of secular morality and ethics or other faiths. I almost gave up on the book after two chapters, but decided to challenge myself to try to see his point of view. If he changed the words “religion” or “Christianity” to “morality”, I'd recommend this book to others. Alas, I cannot.