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American Savior: A Novel Of Divine Politics (2008)

by Roland Merullo(Favorite Author)

3.66 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1565126076 (ISBN13: 9781565126077)

languge

English

genre

Humor

publisher

Algonquin Books

review 1: I enjoyed the book. I liked pondering what if...? What if Jesus did show up today and run for President of the United States? What if he asked me to drop everything and help with the campaign? How would the general public react to this scenario? There is a line on p.67 where Jesus says, "I have come, as I did last time, to show you how to awake from the dream." This coincides with ACIM,of which I have been a long time student.
review 2: I went back and forth between 3 and 4 stars for this novel. It is the story of Jesus Christ (yes, THAT Jesus Christ) returning to earth in a small town in Massachusetts sometime around 2008-2012. After performing a few miracles and coming to the attention of the media, he decides to run for President of the United States.... more He chooses his staff (apostles?) from ordinary folks and as in the Gospels, he just tells them to leave their jobs and work for him. He has a motley crew of people running his campaign, including a cynical and doubting TV anchorman along with his Jewish father, Catholic mother and brother with Down Syndrome, a psychologist, a drug-using gang member, and other misfit characters. Jesus runs on a platform of returning the US to a place where kindness replaces cruelty, generosity replaces greed, and truth replaces lies. He talks about issues of abortion, war, healthcare, the economy – everything a candidate would talk about. The cheesiness and clichés come in with the media people he meets. He is interviewed by Lenny Queen (Larry King?), and Ann Canter (Ann Coulter?) is constantly railing about what an imposter he is. There are numerous other news people and media and movie stars with similar names. I won’t even begin to try to remember how to spell the take-off on George Stephanopoulos. There were some truly funny moments in this book and some truly inspirational moments, but also some that made me groan. No, Jesus did not wear sandals and robes, but he did take walks in the desert, order Indian food and then wash a few feet, and ride a bull in a rodeo. In short, the book is a satire on the life of Jesus as it would be in the 2000’s. less

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