Why the Christian Right Is Wrong: A Minister’s Manifesto for Taking Back Your Faith, Your Flag, Your Future by Robin R. Meyers
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Wow, Robin Meyers is one seriously pissed off individual! I mean, blow your top pissed off. I can dig it, to a degree, because the same things tick me off, but I think he let his passions get the best of him in this literary effort. I think he spends too much time ranting, and not enough time providing plausible alternatives, nor linking the political with the religious. I think he could have done more with that, and should have. I think he owed it to the reader. Indeed, the first third of the book or so is spent Bush bashing. While I hate Bush and while I know this book was written while Bush was still in office, I just had a feeling of been there, done that. I didn’t really learn anything new, and Meyers was just ranting to the choir, in my opinion. I doubt anyone who actually needed to benefit from a topic the title of the book suggests would in fact benefit. They’d just stop reading after 10 pages and say, typical liberal anti-Bush bias — and it is. I wanted to like this book, but I just couldn’t bring myself to be overly impressed with it. Perhaps another writer could have done a better job of it, I don’t know. Meyers’ polemics just kind of turned me off — even though I feel strongly about many of the same things myself. Frankly, I didn’t feel like this was that much of a “manifesto.” Pity….
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