Just out of interest BazzerPontefract do you avoid all books that may be talking about a type of religion? Did you read the Handmaid's Tale for instance. I found it fascinating that, although it had a lot to say in the 80s when it was published it now seems to be even more relevant when it talks about using a fundamentalist religion (in this case based on fundamentalist Christianity in the USA) to control a state. I would not want to miss it just because someone like you might be offended I'm afraid. I assume you would also exclude Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory, The Heart of the Matter and The End of the Affair by Graham Greene because of offended Catholicism. It must make for quite a limited reading list.
You're mistaken.
a) I don't avoid books. I simply read them until they bore me, or I see their flaws - which is the case with Pullman, Rushdie. For the most part, I finish books.
b) I did not read Handmaid's Tale, but I did watch the series. I fail to see any connection between contemporary American Politics and Margaret Attwood's science fiction, which has greater affinity to the apolitical works of John Wyndham.
c) Perhaps you can better explain the neurosis of Left wing thinking that conflates Trump with fundamentalist Presbyterian faiths, especially as a significant number of these fundamentalist Presbyterian faiths prohibit voting. I suspect your paranoia, and the Left's paranoia in general, would like to characterise the democratic, economic and cultural failures of the Left, as a failure of, what you see as, superstitious and ignorant faith groups to fully accept the Left wing message. That they reject the Left wing message is beyond doubt, but that they affect american political outcomes is far from the truth.
d) I recommend you re-read the works of Graham Greene because you appear to have missed the point about Greene's Catholicism.
