And God Said, Billy!: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (774 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00K7LTC92 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 154 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"A timely warning" according to Ray Watchman. I started reading And God Said, Billy! just prior to the US Government shutdown. New Zealand people are not well served by our country's media so far as in-depth analysis and explanation of international events are concerned. So I started searching the web to get a handle on the bizarre events unfolding in the US (including some blogs by Billy's author, Frank Schaeffer.)For me, Billy progressed from being an entertaining read about a deluded evan. MARK TWAIN + ELMORE LEONARD = FRANK SCHAEFFER The uncompromising faith of a particular band of evangelicals, their child-like obedience to authority and their absolute certainty that God's will is for them to be wealthy and successful are ingeniously rendered by an author who has been there/done that. Frank Schaeffer, who grew up among such people, shows the danger their naiveté poses--to themselves.Billy, happily married and the father of a three year old daughter, is a true believer. A modern-day "Pilgrim's Progress" turning presumed assumptions inside out! As a Moody Bible Institute and Wheaton College graduate I have lived from “within” the framework of personal involvement with the fundamentalist, evangelical and post evangelical experience. Like the author I have not lost faith but outgrown most of what if was taught without regret or diminution of my love for GodI have a good friend who is retired the Presbyterian Church USA who sees things much the same way. I laments that the old
And God Said 'Billy!' is a darkly comic coming-of-age story written by the master story teller that House of Sand and Fog author Andre Dubus III hailed as the funniest American writer since Mark Twain. He makes this "It's a deal not a movie" picture even though he has to bust the US entertainment industry's anti-apartheid sanctions in hopes his "worldly movie" will be "used by God" as a "stepping stone" to making his own divinely sanctioned "End Times" picture. The story is set in the 1980s and is about Billy, a yo