Precisely because global capitalism has taken over the West, and America is the leader of global capitalism. Bill Clinton made the longest political march since Mao Zedong when he took the Democratic Party from slightly left of center all the way over into the middle of the Republican Party. That's a trip. Corporate ideology is taking over the world. Since nothing is more important to half of all Americans than the gospels, I thought it was worth posing the theme dramatically.
Few believers go to the real story.
That story is extraordinary. By the narrative measure of post-modernism, it can be termed fabulous and wild, a daring story with startling turns. So I thought, all right, I want to write something that might make a connection between those people who are without reference to Jesus Christ and those people who are fundamentalists. There's an abyss in this country. I thought maybe there's a possibility of creating some kind of slender bridge between the two outpost ideologies.