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Sunday, May 11, 2008 --- 73 days ago http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/05/the_incredible_shrinking_evang
| Ah, spring. Fresh flowers, fresh leaves, fresh leases on life...and, in step with a tradition dating back to around 2004--the year when Christian "values voters" reportedly seized our fragile nation's helm--there's also a fresh crop of new books unabashedly bashing evangelicals.
Leading the pack is "The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power," which is yet another entry in the behind-the-scenes, just-like-Skull-and-Bones Christian conspiracy genre. Luckily for yawning readers, there's also a newer, cuter, echoes-of-Jon-Stewart form of Christian-bashing on the 2008 market, which involves shelving the drama, loading up on the irony, going undercover and making merciless fun of the poor religious saps. In early May, self-affirmed tolerant and open person Matt Taibbi (who, in a recent Rolling Stone article, ridicules "nerdy" evangelicals wearing "the gayest" shirts as "a slow-moving hulk of confused, shipwrecked masculinity, flailing for an Answer") comes out with "The Great Derangement," his own book on the topic. Daniel Radosh, meanwhile, offers a kinder, gentler evangelical skewering--but a skewering nonetheless--in his new book on Christian popular culture, "Rapture Ready." ... |
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