Review: Interesting despite it's bias
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2010
Warning: This review contains spoilers. I just finished this book. In the interest of full disclosure, I am a Christian conservative. As such, I have a particular bias against books and works of fiction that attack Christians and conservatives. The author basically boils down the cause of all ills leading to his fictional civil war as non-catholic Christian social conservatives. He presents the premise that because Christian evangelicals refused to sit down, shut up, and let the slaughter of innocence continue, it caused a civil war. Because this same group refused to condone gay marriage, it caused a civil war. Because conservatives refused to allow the Federal government to grow into the single authority in the country, it caused a civil war. He lays all the blame for societies ills at the feet of those who believe in living their lives according to God's word, who also believe that the constitution and the Bill of Rights should apply to the Federal Government. The narrator, due to his many years of reflection, comes to understand that the beliefs he once held, contributed to the war. A reformed Christian and Conservative...who better to tell the story, right?I will say that the story is well written, in that it flows well. How the narrator came to be telling his story is an interesting premise. Beyond that, it's really a waste of time. At least it's cheap entertainment.