![]() I kept having flashes of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale as the ultimate destination of the Family.An interesting aspect of the Family's belief system is one discussed often in the Atheist forums - the fact that people take a basic story, like that of Jesus from the Bible, and read into it whatever they want to project to achieve their own goals. Religion is used to control the masses either through coercion or through the rigid structuring of the peoples' lives. The Taliban is the same - the elite are exempted from the strict rules because they set the rules. By this I mean totalitarian, religious-focused, faith-based, and rulled by the elite. The most important point I took from the reading was that there is a well-hidden movement within the Christian fundamentalists that has positioned itself to influence the government of this and other countries toward the goal of imposing a Taliban-like society on everyone. This is a scary book when you really think about what the author has researched and presented to us. ![]()
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