One of the scarier aspects of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale was how real the storyline seemed. The standard dystopic fare - 1984, Brave New World, Brazil etc. - frightens the reader/viewer, but from a distance. The science-fictional elements are just a little too strong, so the reader is able to maintain a comfortable sense of aloofness. For a Pakistani boy, raised on the wolf-cry of the mullahs are coming (which, of course, they did in neighboring Afghanistan), The Handmaid’s Tale seemed particularly real.
But in America? The land of reason and godlessness? What would you like with your dystopia, ma’am? A coup d’état by religious fanatics, women locked up, public executions, Christian Taliban, the works? Not a chance, I scoffed from my comfortable reality.
Not a chance.
Until I came across Christian Exodus. A sample:
ChristianExodus.org is moving thousands of Christians to South Carolina to reestablish constitutionally limited government founded upon Christian principles. This includes the return to South Carolina of all “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States.”
and:
- Abortion continues against the wishes of many States
- Sodomite and lesbian “marriage” is now legal in Massachusetts (and coming soon to a neighborhood near you)
- Children who pray in public schools are subject to prosecution
- Our schools continue to teach the discredited theory of Darwinian evolution
Who would have thought? Gilead in our lifetime…
