I was recommended this book by my father, of all the people in the world I still respect, and found myself punched in the throat by it's blatant lies, exaggeration, and baseless religious/political claims...and that's only within the first 50 pages!
Those of you who have had the mind boggling experience of reading any of this book know what I mean, but here's some snippets from the very first page of the chapter titled Introduction:
(after a completely fictitious and outrageous beginning chapter titled "It Could Happen...")
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"Bruce Van Horn is a fictional character, but many of us are more like him than we care to admit. Most of us do not realize what Secular Humanism really is and how it is destroying our culture, families, and country - and one day will destroy the entire world."
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"Secular Humanism ...(various synonyms)...is driven by a flaming hatred for Jesus Christ that seeks to eradicate the Christian world view..."
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"Unfortunately many mainline churches ...(church names)... have eaten, swallowed and digested tons of humanist dogma: evolution, socialism, Marxism, higher criticism of the Bible, moral relativism, amoral sex education, nontraditional families, liberation theology, process theology, gay theology, feminist theology, black theology, world government, and global citizenship, to name a few."
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"Therefore, unless 80 million evangelical Christians in our nation wake up to whom the enemy really is, humanists will soon accomplish their goal of world domination."
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He later claims that "Which of these two option you choose (Secular Humanism or Fundamentalist Christianity) will affect the way you live now and ultimately where you will spend eternity."
I was hoping for some profound insight into the Christian right and boy did I ever get it. Is stuff like this what is currently running through the minds of Christian voters and citizens of the US: Act/vote accordingly or go to Hell? Folks on the boards here are always wondering what is driving this country apart and one of them is definitely the view that the political Left is on the wrong side of a righteous war. Now I realize not all Christians are like this, but the sales of this book are astounding and stunning reviews by Christian sources are proof that it is having some kind of impact. So far I have read that he is decidely opposed to a collective global civilization ("...if patriotism is better than globalism...") and to a strengthened UN, that the nation is in trouble because of "our leaders trust in man.", that in New York "frank scenes of homoeroticism, pederasty, and beastiality" are "part of nature and therefore beautiful.", that "Christians have ALWAYS fought for liberty and freedom", that atheists are amoral, and that "buzz words" like: "social justice...global security...question authority...homophobic...intolerance...feminism...alternate lifestyles...universal healthcare...celebrate diversity...sexism...gay rights...animal rights...participatory democracy..." are all part of the Secular Human plan to eradicate "every idea that Christians hold dear", and finally that "America does not have to remain on its current course of becoming Sodom and Gomorrah."
To sum up my feelings of this book I will borrow from amazon.com. As one reviewer put it "Not since Mein Kampf have I heard such malice."
Edit: Some typos.