Original sentence: It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, quasi-Christian, totalitarian state, known as Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government.The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985
Edited sentence: It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, pseudo-Christian, totalitarian state, known as Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government.The Handmaid's Tale is a controversial anti-Christian dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985.Were such a novel written about Judaism or Islam, it is clear it would be labelled anti-Semitic or Islamophobic