Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts Faith and Threatens America - Book on Religion and Politics in Modern Society - Perfect for Political Science Students and Faith-Based Discussions" （注：原标题已经是英文，因此无需翻译。优化后增加了书籍主题的明确说明以及使用场景，使其更符合SEO规范。）

This is a beautifully written book. It is relatively short, but contains spirited writing regarding the author's feelings about being a "jilted lover." Historically, he tells us, Baptists have always stood for the separation of church and state. It is only in recent times that we find politics and religion joined together by today's Religious Right. Mr. Balmer then presents his views that the issues of abortion and homosexuality are contrived ones, political buzz issues to mobilize the faithful. Divorce used to be an equally big issue until the election of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was divorced so the religious right needed a new issue: abortion. The author points out that abortion was not an issue until some years after the supreme court's decision in Roe vs Wade.Mr. Balmer also discusses religious right attitudes toward school vouchers, evolution and global warming. Those who are premillenialists see no need to treat our planet with care as the second coming is just around the corner. The promotion of school vouchers is, in his words, an attempt by the religious right to destroy public schools. The promotion of more and more private schools will have a devastating effect on America's pluralism. Students should be in schools that allow them to associate with the vast variety of American citizens.This was a spellbinding book to me, an outsider. The author, a professor at Barnard College, and Columbia states in an epilogue that publishing this book will make him a pariah amongst evangelicals. That there is some truth to this can even be evidenced by some of the Amazon reviews of his book.