Christian Nation: A Novel
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- Synopsis
- "They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do." So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America's Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a "Christian Nation" and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said. In the spirit of Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, one of America's foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called "The Blessing," enforced by a totally integrated digital world known as the "Purity Web." Readers will find themselves haunted by the questions the narrator struggles to answer in this fictional memoir: "What happened, why did it happen, how could it have happened?" Further, "The scariest thing about Christian Nation is that it's so plausible. No violent revolution, no blood in the streets, is necessary for Americans to lose their freedoms--just a failure to defend the liberties that we often take for granted." Even though this book appears to be anti-Christian, by reading this book, Christian readers will gain insight into the thinking of those who think differently from them and will cause these readers to question what true Christianity is and is not.
- Copyright:
- 2013
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 345 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393240115
- Publisher:
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 08/26/15
- Copyrighted By:
- Frederic C. Rich
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Barbara Baker
- Proofread By:
- Barbara Baker
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.