Posted on 07/21/2013 6:59:39 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Frederic C. Rich's speculative novel "Christian Nation" is about the rise of an authoritarian theocracy in the United States. The author's disclaimer calls the book a "warning" and not a prediction. But as the book's cover says, in a twist on the Sinclair Lewis novel, "It could happen here."
The book opens in 2029. Greg, an ambitious lawyer who also serves as the tale's narrator, has been asked to write his memories of the circumstances and events that led to the nation's condition.
Greg is a college student in 1998 when the memoir begins. At that point, he isn't too concerned with the direction the country is headed. He details his friendship with Sanjay, his intelligent and charismatic roommate who becomes wealthy by creating a social networking site called "You and I" in the early 2000s.
Sanjay becomes aware of the ultra-Christian Dominionist and Reconstructionist movements -- which do exist in real-life America, though not as formal organizations -- and how they are able to effect national events. In response, he creates and funds a watchdog organization called Theocracy Watch in 2008 after selling You and I. Greg and Sanjay reunite on a professional basis several years later when Greg joins the group as a legal counsel and senses the upcoming confrontation....
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
LOL - by 1998, any "Dominionist/Reconstructionist" threat that may have existed had subsided in politics, except in the fevered minds of the liberal press.
And the Reconstructionist types, like Muslims, can’t even agree with each other. They split into smaller and smaller groups until they are a one-family home “church” with dad as the pope.
Leftists should look in the mirror if they want to see tyrants who crave power over others.
“They’ll turn our precious empire into a Christian theocracy, my king”
“Feed these filthy Christians to the lions!”
(Future reality)
You are right. I used to think that good people would turn this all around, but instead of turning things around, it only gets worse. I hate to be fatalistic, but how long did it take Russia to free itself from communism?
Revolt is coming.
Yes. Of course.
“Lutheran homeschooled fundies were successfully plotting to take over the world.”
Garrison Keillor of the “Prairie Home Companion” would have a ball with that concept!
Guys like this shouldn’t worry. The moslems will save him. [/sarcasm]
Which would be weird because he’s really beating on Martin Luther for one of his early, intemperate diatribes against the Jews... which Luther later regretted but the book was out there, he could not do anything about that wretched work. “Like guy, make up your mind, are the Jews buddy buddy with Lutherans or not???”
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