{"id":1615,"date":"2011-01-08T13:42:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:07:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:07:23","slug":"the-great-derangement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/the-great-derangement\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Derangement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A liberal friend of mine gave me The Great Derangement<\/a><\/em> by Matt Taibbi the other day. Being a conservative Christian, I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Yes, that\u2019s right. Matt attacks both conservatives and Christians throughout the book, and I laughed all the way through it. Not because of how wrong he is, but because of how right. I figure that if you can\u2019t laugh at yourself, you shouldn\u2019t believe what you believe. And if you want to laugh, there is almost nothing funnier than his chapter \u201cThe Three Longest Days of My Life.\u201d It was so funny I read it three times, once out loud to my wife.<\/p>\n

The book is an odd mix of two riot-inciting topics: religion and politics. He takes us inside the inner working of Washington DC, and goes undercover into the Hallelujah-filled halls of John Hagee\u2019s megachurch. And Matt, though he comes from a different perspective than I do, confirmed what I have always suspected: people who are not conservative or Christian think we\u2019re crazy. And I\u2019ll admit it; we are crazy. In fact, for several years now, I cringe at the idea of being called a conservative or a Christian. I suppose in some circles that means I\u2019m neither.<\/p>\n

Which brings me to my only criticism of Matt\u2019s book. He seems to imply that all who believe in God and follow Jesus are like the tongue-speaking, demon-vomiting, gay-hating, environment-polluting Christians he encountered at Cornerstone Church. There are some of us who are more like Matt than he realizes. He can argue with me any time he wants. And I promise, I won\u2019t try to cast demons out of him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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