My New Novel
I'm writing a new novel.
In it, a B-list actor is so impacted by 9/11 he becomes a born again evangelical. He helps forge an evangelical entertainment troupe that ultimately obliterates the wall between church and state, as the group gets paid by the government to promote evangelical ideals among the troops. To do so they help build a videogame that has you killing or converting any brown skin peoples that doubt the righteousness of your belief system.
This troupe begins wandering Iraq on the taxpayer dime, handing out care packages to troops that include the videogame, white socks, boxes of baby wipes, a pocket-size Gideon bible, and a Christian extreme sports DVD.
I'm just kidding. That's not my book. It's absolutely real.
Comments
Honestly it becomes less and less the Islamic folks that scare me, though the extreme militant kill all the infidels do cause me pause.
Who scares me the most is the evangelicals. They are so mindlessly militant in their beliefs. Their blind faith in their interpretation of a fairy tale is the most frightening concept of the future I can fathom. I most certainly don't want to live in a world were you are expected to believe what the Government tells you. But the more I see these people the more scared I become. The future is not particularly bright if that is what we have to look foreward too.
Posted by: Susan | August 10, 2007 07:39 PM