christacarter's review against another edition
5.0
Reads like a textbook but if you manage to stay awake, you’ll learn a lot about evangelical nationalism, militarism, patriarchy, and why so many “good Christian people” voted for Trump
waitenathan's review against another edition
4.0
Overall, quite good, making a persuasive case for Trump being a natural choice for many evangelicals rather than an abberation. Despite occasional pauses to underline the differences between mainline and fringe elements of the movement, the line sometimes felt blurred, and not a word was spoken about the 2012 election, which would seem like an important moment in defining whether evangelicalism was primarily a theological or cultural/political designation. These are pretty minor critiques, for sure.
ktxx22's review against another edition
4.0
The rage this book made me feel on multiple occasions and the realization that my break with the church in the late 2000s was a direct correlation with the corruption and blatant hypocrisy surrounding the church at the time when it reneged on all of the teachings I was raised into.
Bottom line is there are good people of faith, but the institution of the Christian (and Catholic for that matter) church is corrupt to its core, and their backing of politicians financially is a direct failure of separation of church and state and they should immediately be paying taxes. All of the churches.
I will raise my children to be good humans and I won’t be asking for the predatory church system to aid me in that.
Bottom line is there are good people of faith, but the institution of the Christian (and Catholic for that matter) church is corrupt to its core, and their backing of politicians financially is a direct failure of separation of church and state and they should immediately be paying taxes. All of the churches.
I will raise my children to be good humans and I won’t be asking for the predatory church system to aid me in that.
appletonkelli's review against another edition
5.0
This is a compelling look at the evolution of the evangelical church. It was eye-opening, convicting, and also healing. I felt less crazy, less alone in my misgivings about the last 30 years of culture wars after reading about the roots of it.
jbmorgan86's review against another edition
5.0
“No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other.”
How could “family values”-loving evangelicals support a three-times divorced man that cavorts with porn stars, brags about his “endowment” on national TV, admits to groping women, admits to seducing married women, is totally illiterate of the Christian faith? Easy. It was 75 years in the making . . .
How could “family values”-loving evangelicals support a three-times divorced man that cavorts with porn stars, brags about his “endowment” on national TV, admits to groping women, admits to seducing married women, is totally illiterate of the Christian faith? Easy. It was 75 years in the making . . .
emroon's review against another edition
5.0
essential reading for anyone forced to interact with American society