In 2004, I was almost entirely overwhelmed by cognitive dissonance. The Christianity espoused by the ruling coalition of the U.S. did not in any way resemble the Christianity I had learned from my mother and the Jesuits at Regis High School. Reality felt absurd. Shocked, I wrote an earnest plea to Christians on the state of the nation – one both overwrought and incomplete.
Elsewhere, J. Brad Hicks was writing his own reconciliation of the books. While imperfect, his is an eloquent, conversational and righteous attack on the origins of the coalition between Christians and Republicans. I highly recommend it.