Postscript
The writer’s statistical breakdown of the staggering sums funneled to religious Organizations, thanks to President Bush’s faith-based initiatives, boggles the mind. Ms. Goldbergs delightful sense of humor comes through admirably when she calls Intelligent Design merely creationism dressed up in drag. With tongue firmly in cheek. She enthuses that Massachusetts, the only state with legal same-sex marriage, has the lowest divorce rate in the nation. The final chapter, “Exiles in Jesusland,” reads like a primer on how to combat sectarian extremism. She underscores the desperate need to organize a liberal infrastructure on a par with the government-sponsored, media-supported and extremely well-financed network of religious nationalism. Otherwise, she warns in her last line, God help us all.
