Blessed are the merciful.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: Tilting at Windmills - Brief Article

Christianity was even more dominant as the national religion than it is today. But it was mostly a different kind of Christianity. Although there were extremists like Father Charles Coughlin, who called Roosevelt's program the "Jew Deal," the great majority of American Christians resisted efforts to fan their mild anti-Semitism into the kind of hatred Hitler ignited in German Christians. This was due, I think, primarily to two factors. One was the recent experience with Prohibition. If you remembered, as my father...