Americans in a Secular Society

This book is full of lies and distortions, and is written by a Christian and Bush hater! If Christians "fundamentalists" and President Bush have so much control over the United States, Why is it that children can't pray in schools? That the KORAN can be taught in schools and NOT the Bible? That our founding documents can't be taught in schools (because they reference God?) That Christians can't pray in parks or in public places (because it offends people?) That Christians can't voice their opinions on homo-sexual marriage without being arrested and facing 47 years in prison? (WHEN IT'S FREE SPEECH!)

With this Liberal propagada book - One might believe Christians were the outspoken extreme, radical ones in control. When it is really the anti- American, anti- Christian left!

Vast Right Wing Conspiracy at the Esther's Door

I will admit I was thoroughly amused by the book and read the whole thing. It was almost like eating a Big Mac... poor contents but hard to put down.

Esther makes no bones about it from the beginning-- she does not like the principles of Christianity and she wrote the book for political impact in 2004. Both points are redundantly proven throughout the book as she takes us from one vast Christian right wing conspiracy to another all under the Bush Administation. One must wonder what Esther thinks of the Founding Fathers and their deep faith and repeated references to the Almighty.

The book makes errors (claiming Roe v. Wade was decided in January 2001 when it actually occurred in January 1973), intentionally omits key information (the audit of AIDS groups was incited by liberal activists like Michael Petrelis of San Francisco and Act-up/DC-- neither of which are mentioned any where in the book), contains totally trivial information (a congressional staffer phoning Washington to tell someone he is being treated rudely at a conference), is completely one sided (AIDS lobbyists and other liberals are treated as saints-- sorry for the Christian reference-- while Christians and conservatives are predictably portrayed as coniving and evil), and lacks depth (is there nothing nice, new or interesting that Esther learned about any of the people she is out to hatchet that would give us some insight into their true character or are they all the same, one brained, mean spitited Christians that don't share her world view?). One thinks Esther must be totally naive to the U.S. political process if she believes this "conspiracy" between a Presidential Administration and special interest groups has never occurred before. Does anyone not believe Clinton worked closely with liberal interests and the previous Republican Administrations did not do the same with conservative groups? This may be a shocking revelation to Esther, but not to anyone else who follows politics.

This book serves little if any significance other than trying-- and failing-- to be a shelf size version of a Michael Moore flick. I am sure the White House will have a good laugh reading it as they prepare for the Inauguration.

Bush administration = religious fascists

This book documents the religious right's attack on America through George W. Bush's reign of terror. Even Ronald Reagan (who was the first modern president to court the religious right in order to win the Republican presidential nomination) never had attempted to divide America through religion to this extent.

From John Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General to the establishment of a White House office for religious outreach, this administration has reached new lows in religious zealotry. Good government policy has thus become defined as only what conveniently matches the Bush administration's own religious convictions.

The unprecedented errors in government publications are allowed because the religious right honestly is not interested in having a realistic public policy discussion. They want to condemn and punish ANYBODY who does not share their totalitarian world view. This includes people of faith who WANT everybody to enjoy religious freedom.

Bush may be sincere in his own religious convictions, but I cannot see this same belief system being of actual moral use if he is trampling the First Amendment rights of myself and other citizens--who are also a part of the America he is supposed to work for.

For all Bush's fancy education, he has selectively forgotten that the First Amendment also protects the religious rights of other people, and also people who do not want to engage in any religious practices (organized or otherwise).

The First Amendment was enacted because the framers had personal experience with theocracies in England and the colonies; a person who was outside of the state-sponsored religion automatically became less of a person, and (virtually) ceased to exist as a being.

If the president of America is not interested in learning from American history, we are in deeper trouble than initially imagined.