I have no interest in reading the book but I did watch first three episodes. Creepy horror movie for sure. But was surprised, after all I heard it would be, that two points were made clear. This new regime was twisting the bible, taking things out of context. And they were shown demolishing traditional Christian churches. The main character was very aware of this.
Any thinking person watching this show and the brutality to women ,and any man that disagrees, will be reminded of only one religion. Muslim. right down to slavery and genital mutilation. Yeah a horror story for the screen but all to real.
I can't really blame them because many churches today are accepting a false gospel of abortions and sodomy. There is almost as much confusion in the church today as in pagan times. The thing that never changes is the idols we set up to throw our babies into the fire as with Molech and sodomy as in Sodom and Gomorrah and the Roman Empire. We carve out a piece of wood and bow down to almost anything this week and re-carve a chunk of it next week because our minds have changed about who God is. He has clearly stated who He is, but we refuse to agree with it. Sodomy and adultery are the same yesterday as they are today. The difference today is "Everybody does it", so God must be wrong.
Has anybody noticed that the future is always portrayed as a "dystopian" mess no matter what movie or book comes out? They write their fears down on a script, but have different reasons that we got that way. This one fears religion. The Walking Dead is fear of stupid government inventing a virus and it getting loose. Babylon AD was a similar view of false religion. They all have a lack of God as the central theme. If we know the lack of God will destroy the world, why won't we change?