In Carroll's provocative reading of the deep past, the Bible's
brutality responded to the violence that threatened Jerusalem from
the start. Centuries later, the mounting European fixation on a
heavenly Jerusalem sparked both anti-Semitism and racist colonial
contempt. The holy wars of the Knights Templar burned apocalyptic
mayhem into the Western mind. Carroll's brilliant and original leap
is to show how, as Christopher Columbus carried his own Jerusalem
centric worldview to the West, America too was powerfully shaped by
the dream of the City on a Hill - from Governor Winthrop to Abraham
Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson to Ronald Reagan. The nuclear
brinksmanship of the 1973 Yom Kippur War helps prove his point:
religion and violence fuel each other, with Jerusalem the ground
zero of the heat.
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