[2ndDivisionVet]

Hrafnkell Haraldsson, A 53-year-old Heathen, author of A Heathen's Day (aheathensday.com) and Digital Gods (digital-gods.com) and founder of Mos Maiorum Foundation (www.mosmaiorum.org) dedicated to the study of Paganism as ethnic religion. He is also a contributor to PoliticusUSA (politicususa.com) and GodsOwnParty (godsownparty.com/blog).

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[darkangel82]

Inability to tell fiction from reality is a sign of a serious problem. Perhaps this twit of a ‘writer’ should seek help.

[Secret Agent Man]

liberals hate Christians because they can’t stand Jesus usurping their god, government - ie them.

[JimSp]

Let me see if I have it straight. Write a novel about how bad Christians are then a self important fool uses it as proof of how bad Christians are.

Did I get it straight?

[ifinnegan]

The review and the book reviewed are ludicrous.

The author doesn’t even know the lyric to the song he quotes: “taught to feel Jesus in a small town”.

It’s taught to fear, not feel.

[Nervous Tick]

>> it is a journey to the dark heart of Christian extremism....

It’s also fiction.

[LS]

That these novels are out there doesn’t bother me half as much as the fact that anyone who writes a novel from a Christian perspective is automatically consigned to the “Christian” section of books and therefore isolated. A few-—conversions such as Ann Rice, or classics such as Lewis or Tolkien escape-—but in some ways having a “Christian” section for books is one of theorist things for spreading the gospel.
<I once read a Christian music writer who lamented having the “Best Christian” category at the Grammys and separate Dove awards as segregating Christian music or taking it less seriously. I don’t have a problem with the Doves, but I see the point that Christian music and literature must be good enough to compete with the “mainstream” stuff-—and it can, as Tolkien and Michael W. Smith have done.

[circlecity]

A very rambling incoherent article. What do “televangelists” and “megachurches” have to do with small town Christians? I guess haters gotta hate, whether they make sense or not.

[elcid1970]

The comments are ludicrous; they even start sniping at each other for not being sufficiently progressive & anti-Christian.

BTW, I didn’t know I was a “Dominionist”. Guess the sequel will depict Dominionists sitting in the pews with their pistols & shotguns while the preacher rants & waves an AR-15.

And why are lefties so hung up on “Islamophobia”?

[ravenwolf]

All in all, it felt like I’d earned a PhD in Christian Extremism and it was terrifying.

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I think a lot of people goes through that same thing, i knew a fellow who after reading a book or two started thinking of him self as a professor, later he got married and had kids and now is a flagman for the state highway department.

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Baptist minister who represents everything we have come to hate about the self-righteous hypocrisy of the Religious Right.

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The emphasis seems to be on the religious right but what is described is a stupid poor me leftist this sounds like a leftest turned around and have the left and right mixed up.

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Being Christian is available on Amazon.com’s Kindle for just $7.95 and $11.33 in paperback.

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I have the $7.95 but i am not sure if i am going to do any gardening next year or not.

[redleghunter]

As the author put it, it’s all about choice but fundamentalists have a funny way of understanding choice. They talk a lot about personal responsibility but everything that happens to them always seems to be somebody else’s fault. Christian doesn’t have any free will, because free will would demand he take responsibility for his actions. So much easier to believe God willed this or that and Satan had choreographed everything else.

The pagans sure do like to use works of fiction to put across their agenda. I take it regeneration escapes them.

[redleghunter]

The comments section is a hoot. I saw terms I never knew existed. What is a “Fundamentalist/Dominionist?”