God and Hillary Clinton

by Paul Kengor

She was raised a Methodist. She led Bible studies and prayer groups throughout her years in the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Yet she has clearly strayed from her spiritual roots, and has even dabbled in New Age mysticism. So is the woman who wants to be our next President really a committed Christian, as she claims? In God and Hillary Clinton: A Spiritual Life, historian Paul Kengor (author of the New York Times Bestseller God and Ronald Reagan) offers the first-ever "spiritual history" of the First Lady, Senator, and presidential candidate. Talking with people who witnessed her faith firsthand, he decisively answers the elusive question: what does Hillary Clinton really believe?

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The strange faith of a relentlessly ambitious woman:

• How Hillary, despite her avowed Christianity, was "the driving force" behind Bill Clinton's unstinting pro-abortion policies -- and the primary reason why the Slick One steadfastly refused to moderate on this one issue

• The suspicious timing of many of Hillary's displays of Christian religiosity

• Hillary's speeches on religion: never as animated or passionate as her speeches on abortion -- and her sneers at pro-life Republicans who are, she says, "motivated by…a direct line to the heavens"

• The liberal media's hypocrisy in lauding Hillary's pandering campaign stops in black churches, while excoriating any Republican who would dare to campaign in a church

• Hillary's spiritual double standards during the Lewinsky scandal: portraying her faith in God as her refuge during a time of turmoil, while ridiculing those on the opposing side for their reliance on their own spirituality

• The conservative, pro-life Baptist minister who helped steer Bill Clinton into the pro-abortion position from which he never again wavered

• Bill Clinton in 1973: "Hillary really backs the PLO and doesn't like what Israel is up to"

• How the Clintons began in the earliest stages of Bill's political career to use church appearances for political opportunism

• How Hillary as First Lady created a hybrid belief system, incorporating ideas from both the Left and the Right, but without enough balance to make her a true moderate

• When Mother Theresa confronted the Clintons over abortion: how Hillary ignored her message and twisted her words for her own political advantage

• How the Clinton Administration halted many Reagan-Era anti-pornography initiatives that had the porn industry on the ropes

• The spiritualist who held weird sessions to "connect" Hillary with the "spirits" of Eleanor Roosevelt and Mahatma Gandhi

• How the Lewinsky scandal led the Clintons to reevaluate many of their deepest held beliefs about marriage and each other -- although not their beliefs about abortion

• Hillary: a centrist? Her 95 percent liberal ranking from the far-left Americans for Democratic Action

• How Hillary modified her approach to abortion for political purposes after the 2004 election, and began to speak of it in connection with moral issues for the first time

• Senator Hillary: her strategies to showcase her faith for religious voters, while Christian groups questioned her sincerity

• The strident, confrontational tone Hillary adopted (with great success) in 2006 -- including shrill attacks on the "religious right"

• Homosexual marriage: how Hillary appears to buckle in her willingness to be frank and bold in opposition to this issue, depending on whom she is talking to

• How Hillary, Barack Obama and other liberal Christian politicians attempt to turn the tables on conservative Christians and affirm their religiosity