Good Books to Reduce Religious Hatred

Wild Faith is a book again on how the Christian Right is taking over America, by investigative journalist Talia Lavin. From book bans in libraries to banning gay rights, she also covers the Christian Patriarchy movement (a desire to place all women under male control) and ‘deliverance ministers’ that leads to child abuse.

Separation of Church and Hate is by the son of a former Catholic nun and Franciscan brother, a Biblically correct takedown of far-right Christian hatred. For over 200 years, the US constitution has given people the right to a society where church and state exist independently. But now this is being hijacked by a few, to impose narrow views on government and faith.

These extremists who weaponize the Bible for earthly power, are not on the side of Jesus. Comedian John Fugelsang takes you through the issues. Abortion is a personal ethics issue and one that should be respected, but other issues like immigration and homophobia are far less clear-cut.

Nice Christians don’t get the airtime. You don’t see them on cable news, talking about how war is bad. Villains make for better TV. John Fugelsang

Bring Back Your People is a book to bring the real issues of climate change and pollution back to a nasty politics more concerned with scaring people into voting for far-right beliefs. The author is a preacher and leader of the Poor People’s Campaign in the USA, who even saw loved ones, get sucked into this new politics. He says, the price of gas is not the reason to spew politics of hate.

In the US recently, one bereaved father called out Trump and Vance for mentioning (without permission) the name of his son, accidentally killed by a Haiti immigrant. He asked them to stop using a genuine accident which involved the death of his son, for political gain.

I wish that my son was killed by a 60-year old white man. I bet you never thought anyone would say anything so blunt. But if that guy killed my 11-year old son, the hate-spewing people would leave us alone. Nathan Clark (father of Aiden Clark speaking alongside his wife Danielle).

The same thing happened in England, when Boris Johnson used two murders, again to spew his own agenda:

Jack would be seething at his death (and his life) being used to perpetuate an agenda of hate. He believed in the goodness of humanity. Borrow his intelligence, share his drive, feel his passion, burn with his anger and extinguish hatred with his kindness. Never give up his fight. David Merritt (father of Jack Merritt, who with Saskia Jones was killed in a London Bridge terrorist attack)