“No one reads the Bible more than me” ~President Donald J. Trump

Armed with a protestant dogma that has been repackaged as corporate and capitalist, far-right American theocrats have duped an enormous number of white Christians into compliance and complicity with their coup d'état.

To paraphrase the author, Republican Jesus is white, working-class and pro-life. After he and his family legally immigrated to Egypt, he returned to the “rural heartland of northern Israel” where he became an aspiring religious reformer with an aversion for the poor and an affinity for sidearms. Republican Jesus opposed Big Government but not capital punishment, which, considering how he died, is beyond ironic.

Republican doctrine denounces big government while promoting big church. I don’t know who first coined the term “spherical idiocy” but it is an ideal idiom for conservative evangelical philosophy (it is spherical because it is an idiocy from every angle).

Such is the bizzaro world in which we (primarily Americans but not exclusively Americans) now live. I didn’t necessarily need Tony Keddie and his book to point this out but it is nice to know that I’m not the only person on the continent who is in a perpetual state of eye-roll.