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bitterross

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19. Here'a a scary book about it happening. "Christian Nation"
Tue Aug 28, 2018, 02:24 PM
Aug 2018

“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?"

https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Nation-Frederic-C-Rich-ebook/dp/B00A3IZHHK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1535480543&sr=8-1&keywords=christian+nation

Don't think it cannot happen here.

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JESUS CHRIST! democratisphere Aug 2018 #1
Maybe Jesus would not be happy (he isn't here to ask), Mariana Aug 2018 #4
Yep. Give money to the hypocritical so-called church and you will be saved. democratisphere Aug 2018 #5
Whatever christians truly are, they are not it. pangaia Aug 2018 #20
That's because most Humans need to feel grounded in, or tethered to, Volaris Aug 2018 #22
That's a valid argument. 2naSalit Aug 2018 #24
The southern Democrats who became Republicans, starting in the 60's, did it purely for racial deurbano Aug 2018 #27
not just wrecking Locrian Aug 2018 #25
Judas was an early modern day conservative disciple. Judas got 30 pieces of silver, but just once, keithbvadu2 Aug 2018 #26
Sounds like a cult to me. unitedwethrive Aug 2018 #2
It boggles my mind that they dumped their "closely held beliefs"... Girard442 Aug 2018 #3
Have they ever rockfordfile Aug 2018 #30
Payback is a "b" Democrats_win Aug 2018 #6
This is why Pence Wellstone ruled Aug 2018 #7
Yep. Then they'll kill each other when they try to choose their leader amongst them. tonyt53 Aug 2018 #8
And ultimate control over the lives of others. 2naSalit Aug 2018 #14
And the power. TwistOneUp Aug 2018 #15
In other words, they're Taliban FakeNoose Aug 2018 #9
This is ... TwistOneUp Aug 2018 #18
Watch The Handmaids Tale on Netflix. Funtatlaguy Aug 2018 #10
* Hulu, but yes. musette_sf Aug 2018 #16
Dominionist bedfellows with Putin superpatriotman Aug 2018 #11
Yep, all christian racists. I hope both countries' non-racists are majorities, or we're in trouble. ancianita Aug 2018 #21
Gilead lunatica Aug 2018 #12
News flash for all EVILGELICALS: ain't gonna happen Thekaspervote Aug 2018 #13
Thank you. TwistOneUp Aug 2018 #17
Here'a a scary book about it happening. "Christian Nation" bitterross Aug 2018 #19
The Dominionists watoos Aug 2018 #23
"Won't Quit Until Get Theocratic Dictatorship." Which one? keithbvadu2 Aug 2018 #28
How easily they ignore European history. Delmette2.0 Aug 2018 #32
They are as in bed w Putin as The NRA for global White Christian Supremacy/Totalitatianism stuffmatters Aug 2018 #29
laugh at them and call them hypocrites to their face in public dembotoz Aug 2018 #31
The drumbeat of the Talibornagains.. Permanut Aug 2018 #33
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