Name: On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - A Personal History - Josiah Hesse
Brand: Josiah Hesse
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Hillbilly Elegy meets Educated in this powerful hybrid of memoir and sociopolitical observation that explores the ways evangelical Christianity has preyed upon its followers while galvanizing them into the political force known today as the Christian right. nExvangelical journalist Josiah Hesse grew up in the stifling working-class town of Mason City, Iowa, raised in the institutions of fundamentalist Christianity: a toxic mixture of schools, ministries, and religious camps that taught creationism, instilled sexual shame, and foretold horrific tales of the rapture and the ceaseless agony awaiting sinners in the afterlife. In the churches where he worshipped, greedy pastors siphoned their flocks' wealth while preaching a doctrine of prosperity and humiliating the poor. Meanwhile, as economic struggles grew in the community around him, his fellow believers lambasted organized labor and shunned the social safety net, an army for God against the evils of progressivism. Like many of his peers, Hesse would find himself a high-school dropout, in and out of a series of dead-end jobs. Only upon escaping Iowa in search of something more would he truly consider the possibility that God didn't exist, that the world wasn't going to end, and that he was woefully unprepared for a future he'd never believed would arrive. n nWritten in vivid prose, On Fire for God is both an unflinching memoir of religious trauma and survival and a stirring examination of the emotional, political, and sociolo