Odd fantasy book were christians act like muslims

I don't think it's really Christianity that Atwood is focusing on in the story, but more gender politics. It's not like practically ANY of the female characters are truly happy....they've just been assigned roles by the government, with a few being lucky enough to land near the top. The officials' wives are still just "help meets" (even if they get better food and a bit more freedom.)

The Gilead regime in power also isn't sincerly faithful, but crafted (as the book's epilogue explains) to what would be palatable to the largest percentage of the public. The majority of Western Civilization is Xtian, so the Gilead government founders chose a Biblical model. (In the same way, the domestics in the story, such as the "Marthas" and "Aunt Lydias", are named after commercial brands women in society historically trusted...Martha Stewart, Lydia Pinkham, etc.)

These choices were aimed at creating a smooth(er) transition.
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Agree 100% with the OP. This story is just another in a long, long line of Leftist "cautionary" fantasies where Leftist authors project all the evils of a totalitarian communist/socialist dictatorship onto a conservative and/or Christian society. No basis in fact other than the prejudices, hatreds and fears of Leftists. It's a close sister genre to the many "Evil Redneck" stories like Deliverance and Winter's Bone that conjure up horror stories about degenerate rural people from what Liberals call "The Flyover States".

These propaganda pieces are pretty much the modern version of what the Nazis were doing when they made movies like "Jud Suss". Sensationalist trash calculated to provoke fear and hatred of groups they oppose.

And as everyone will ask, I am an agnostic city dweller.

I would have to agree, and wrote about it on another thread. I'll cut and paste my assessment of this book/tv show here:

This entire book is an illustration of Margaret Atwood's beliefs and fears as an atheist, feminazi liberal in Canada. She originally wrote the book in response to President Reagan's actions in the 80s, and used a lot of symbolism in her book.

The book basically shows that she hates Christians, she hates men, and shows what she wishes would happen to Christians everywhere in America, as punishment for all their "slights" towards her and others like herself, real or imagined. The book is basically a giant turd she wishes had fallen on Americans years ago, but nobody really paid attention to until the tv show came out.

I can tell you right now that such a coup could NEVER happen, under any circumstances, and no Christian in his or her right mind would EVER support the wicked things the Sons of Jacob did to society in the eastern US. Plus, our government has backup plans in place to prevent such a coup from ever happening.

It should be noted that the book indicated that Gilead did not last forever, and the entire story is derived from tapes Offred used to record her experiences, which were discovered 200 years later and studied at a university somewhere in North America. So apparently the Sons of Jacob got what they deserved eventually.

What a ridiculous book and T.V series. Caucasians would not take to the same level as the interbred Arabs. THe reason why so much crazy sh** goes on in Muslim countries is because of the inherent low I.Q which is brought down even more by marring family members (look into it).

What do you mean you haven’t seen anything in Christianity to show they would eventually turn into a rape culture? The Bible is full of verses about women as property and God telling men to go into cities and kill everyone but the virgins to take for themselves.

Numbers 31:17So now, kill all the boys, and kill every woman who has had relations with a man, 18but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.

Or the verses where women aren’t allowed to teach men or even speak in church?
1 Timothy 2:11 A woman must learn in quietness and full submissiveness. 12I do not permit a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man; she is to remain quiet.

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1 Corinthians 14:34women are to be silent in the churches. They are not permitted to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says

I don’t know where you got the idea that Christianity doesn’t have the same misogynistic roots as the other religions that came out of the Middle East but you’re wrong.

It's not about that, it's about power, when Men get into power and they want more of it and won't give it up.