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Mr. Book just finished The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy, by Matthew D. Taylor.

This book is about the New Apostolic Reformation, which is a Christian nationalist faith that the author claims was instrumental in January 6. The book chronicles the movement, its founders, Paula and Peter Wagner, and other influential figures such as Paula White. There have been some very books on Christian nationalism and January 6. For example, a couple that I have already reviewed, and given A’s to, were Preparing For War, by Bradley Onishi, and Wild Faith, by Talia Levin.

Unfortunately, this was not one of them. The author overplayed his hand. I find it hard to believe that anything would have changed, in terms of Trump gaining the office or the events of January 6, if this particular group wasn’t involved. Were they one of many players—it appears to be the case. But, take them out of the equation and nothing changes. And, they are not interesting on their own to warrant a book written about them otherwise.

I give this book a D. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, a D equates to 1 star. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

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Mr. Book finished reading this on October 10, 2024.