"An in-depth examination of the fracture of the church-state divide, assaults on the independent judiciary, resurrected 19th-century science and socioeconomic Darwinism, and revisionist history marking the U.S. rightward ideologic turn. An alliance of Christian Reconstructionists, gun advocates, corporate oligarchs and anti-tax forces contribute to the right-wing goal of a "bullet-proof" Republican legislative majority.Defining America's destiny in terms of anticipated end times battles of the Book of Revelation, fundamentalist allies of Pat Robertson and former Nixon aide, Chuck Colson, posit two world views that cannot coexist - that of "Biblical literalists" vs. "Enlightenment secularists." Civil war is predicted, should "God's rightful heirs" fail to gain dominance over all social and governmental institutions in preparation for the Second Coming."