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So apparently Margaret Atwood has written another book in the Handmaid's Tale world. It's called The Testaments. I could never get through the Handmaid's Tale because it was so over the top "Christians will do this! Beware! Beware!" that I couldn't take it seriously.
Given that Atwood has drunk the kool-aid and gone completely bonkers over Trump, I'm almost interested in how over the top whoever the villain is resembles Orange Man Bad. Not enough to buy it obviously, but maybe pirate it.
The most ironic part about it all was that Atwood originally intended The Handmaid's Tale as a criticism of Sharia Law and the then-recent Iranian Revolution.
She just used Evangelical Christianity as a stand-in since this was pre-9/11 and most Americans would be a lot more familiar with Christianity than with Islam. Plus it was the early 1980's and the Religious Right was just gaining steam at the time, so it did feel topical as well. She didn't go fully off the deep end until much later.
I still find it ironic that the SJW's who champion The Handmaid's Tale the most and think it's like some sort of modern-day prophecy are also the ones most likely to whine about Islamophobia and silence any criticism of Islamism or the migrant policies in Europe.