Posted on 09/01/2013 9:48:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
“They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.”
Sounds frightening, doesn’t it? Who could “they” be? A 1984-like government? A terrorist organization? An alien force? Well, according to the author who wrote those words, the “they” are big bad Christians.
Christian Nation by Frederic C. Rich is a new novel which, according to some reviewers, is their worst nightmare, for it details a country in which Christian values are strictly obeyed.
From GoodReads.com,
“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.
Upon further reading, one discovers Palin and her Christian force have imposed an authoritarian rule called “The Blessing” upon their subjects, which is enforced by the “Purity Web.”
Here’s some positive feedback from the Ordinary Reader Review section on ReadChristianNation.com:
“A genuinely frightening look at a possible future.” -- Goodreads, July 7
“It’s captivating, realistic, and rather terrifying.” -- Goodreads, June 1
“Very chilling.” -- Goodreads, July 8
I’m sorry, but what exactly is “frightening,” “terrifying,” and “chilling” about praying, going to church, and making sure your kids don’t stumble upon X-rated websites?
I tend to like Betsy Woodruff’s review much better. In a piece for National Review Online, she tears apart this hilariously over-the-top novel page-by-page.
Come for the groundbreaking Evangelical-Christians-are-like-Nazis rhetoric, stay for the mind-numbing dialogue...Rich’s novel is essentially what Atlas Shrugged would have been if it had been conceived by a Freedom from Religion Foundation focus group and edited by Howard Dean.
I hate to tell the author of this book and his frightened readers, but our Christian founding fathers’ ideal of America wasn’t very far off from Rich’s “scary” plot. As most of them were men of God, they most likely knew a country centered on Jesus was the best foundation. Liberals may fear a nation in which a bold conservative woman takes the reigns, but for us conservatives, who fear an overbearing federal government, family values being placed on the back burner and an increased dependency on Uncle Sam -- our nightmare is all too real.
Instead of reading the book, which seems like it would be headache-inducing, watch the hysterical trailer instead:
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
The left’s attacks on Christians has always had a strain of paranoia in them.
It really does show one exactly the mindset of the book.
Clips of Nazi Germany blinking in and out, the newspaper headline "McCain dies under mysterious circumstance," the pee-cee stereotypes...
It is projection in its classic form.
They really ARE nuts.
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I’m gonna take a wild guess here that this POS book will not hit the top million sellers on Amazon.
NICE!
Oy'm gonna do that, Oy am.
Exactly what could be said about Obama.
The difference being that is the reality, while this author's fantasy is based upon zero.
This is nothing but an example of the Left’s inbred insanity.
These same idiots completely ignore the Islamic Titanic that’ll be heading their way.
My guess if it came to such a juncture? They’d embrace Islam! It’s vintage Satan.
Thanks for that post. I don’t like the support for McLame, but perhaps it is out of loyalty. It’s a hard call for where to draw the line. Zippy throws his supporters under the bus at the drop of a hat, which although I’m glad to see them under the bus, gives me pause because I question the morals of a man who seems to have no ties or loyalty to anyone. He strikes me as the sort who would (and did) off his own grandmother for personal gain.
I like Palin for many reasons.
1. She supports many, many, many conservative views.
2. She energizes the base.
3. She annoys the liberals. (It’s not that I enjoy annoying anyone, it’s just that I’m tired of running candidates that first get the liberal stamp of approval like McLame.)
4. She is NOT a lawyer.
5. She has (or at least seems to have) a great deal of common sense.
I don’t as yet have a preference for President in 2016, but if Palin were running she’d definitely have my vote.
Hey General, I think Sarah had a whole lot of mindshare but not a whole lot of overt support.
That’s in my guts as a sense and my guts have been wrong before.
But you know what wouldn’t hurt? An FR-wide letter writing campaign to Sarah! Encourage her to run! This doesn’t mean “dissing” other possible candidates. I think the Lord, working through her, could elevate the process. And that trial she had in Alaska which ended up with her quitting? Don’t forget that it’s not HER she is resting on. It is the Lord. Sometimes the Lord sets up lessons of failing in order to teach us to look to Him harder for lessons of succeeding. That failure might be the crux of a future success because it is the Lord working and not Sarah.
So what?!?!?!?
I have lived to see the Democratic Party’s designs from the days of LBJ’s “Great Society”, destroy the country, establish a permanent self-enslaved inner city-class of folks, and Freedom eroded.
I have lived to see the Communists living, since the extinction of the law, in the 1950’s, and all the damage that action has caused.
I have seen the populace of this country, turn from giving a crap about what and where this country is going, to giving a crap and calling 911, when the wrong kind of food ends up in the take-out food bag.
Should an internal conflict arise, the only outcome that would work would be one where 76% of the ENTIRE would be KIA/MIA, just to get a 50-50 chance that thinking, intelligent, true Americans would be the ones surviving!
I may “be old”, as that Jeanette said, but I know how many things that woman ain’t gonna know how to do with, or without, whenh that happens!!!
And it’s all devil driven.
Now Satan does not want me to tell you this secret, but I will.
God is bigger than Satan.
Exalt God with intensity and purpose, even through a small but determined minority, and wonders will begin.
No, Doughty. You are dumbing the battle down to mere men’s politics. I want to elevate it to God’s wisdom.
IF it is truly God who is saying “YES, let those immigrants in” then God can be trusted to be wise. Now one Christian tenet is that wisdom is found in a multitude of wise counselors. Sarah wouldn’t buck a consensus that no this is a bad idea, if it truly existed. She is not bull headed like so many of our conventional politicians.
It would be perfectly plausible to me if God did call for this, because God would have other pieces to move into the picture. God could turn Hispanics from enemies to friends in virtually nothing flat.
Don’t get all potpourri-picky on me here. Let’s have the faith to put God first, and Sarah would be only one piece in the puzzle but an important piece.
It's hard not to mock them for their stupidity and level of gullibility...
Maybe .001 % of 1 % of christians think a USA imposed theocracy is a good idea...the whole group will fit in a phone booth
I always ask them exactly HOW will that be accomplished ?
They have zero political power, no mainline church supports such an idea, the people who vote certainly don't want one...
But in the same breath...the idea of imposed Shari law is Ok, because it would mean diversity...
Liberalism truly is a mental disorder
If she runs and wins, the illegal immigrants will be legalized.
Game, set, match...
Your vote will NEVER count again.
I don’t know about you, but I could never endorse a man of the likes of McCain. Nothing he could do would buy my unswerving loyalty.
In your heart you realize the significance of that act.
You’re joking right? It amazes me how you Palin groupies simply gloss over the fact that she campaigned for, endorsed and flew to Arizona to support McCain. I mean you guys passionately hate McCain but magically dismiss Palin’s endorsement of him over a Tea Party candidate. I don’t get it.
Oh blues, blues, blues.
Is the joy of the Lord smaller than our conventional wisdom?
If she believes in easing Hispanic immigration and even forgiveness, and the Lord is backing her, then give her a chance to be the forthtelling prophet of how it would be a boon and not a bane in God’s plan. I very clearly see the concern, that they will simply dumb down and become Democrats. God says, quite possibly, wait a minute folks. Satan’s doing that. I’m a tad bigger than Satan. Give me a chance I might lick that dirty dog for you.
YMMV but God’s mileage never does.
Watched it....these people have serious mental issues...
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