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
dashadashahi's review against another edition
4.0
Du Mez provides a critical analysis of the American evangelical movement, particularly demonstrating the critical role that militant masculinity had in shaping ideas of evangelical identity at the individual, domestic, and foreign levels. Evangelical culture and politics are deeply intertwined with reaffirming myths of American exceptionalism, women's purity, and men's dominance. I felt the historical analysis of this book was strong, and that's why I preferred the first 2/3rds or so of the book. By the time we reach the mid-2000s, I found the analysis less compelling, while still demonstrating the core of her argument. I think, perhaps, such a section could have been trimmed down in order to provide more room to previous discussions on previous discussions. Nonetheless, an insightful book on the Religious Right and how they came to be.