The Real AntiChrist: How America Sold Its Soul

Since September 11, 2001, the Religious Right has used fear to manipulate America. It has used 19 terrorists to make us so afraid that we are willing to abandon our values and do things that are virulently anti-American and un-Christian. The sale of millions of books in the Left Behind series, which portrays the Religious Right's apocalyptic vision, is just one example of how fear-based religion is foundational to what is going on in this country. That demon has to be named and called out if we are to be free of it. Michael Piazza does just that in The Real AntiChrist: How America Lost Its Soul. "There IS an antichrist and it isn't Russia or Osama bin Laden," Rev. Piazza says, "It isn't even George W. Bush. I believe the real antichrist is the way in which America, and in particular the evangelical church in America, has come to embody a vision and values that are diametrically opposite of Jesus, therefore, 'the Real antichrist.'"