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Aug 29, 2017AaronAardvark1940 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
A grim theocratic dystopia. I like the way Atwood presents the story of Offred in parallel with both the story of her previous life and with the growth of the repressive state of Gilead. If it’s hard to believe this amount of religious hypocrisy, consider that some present-day soi disant Christians justify the murder of doctors and clinic staff to prevent abortions, and blame women for inciting rape by their behavior. The author outlines a cause that supposedly underlies the accession of the theocracy, but clever politicians can engineer all sorts of reasons for the “temporary“ suspension of rights, leading to totalitarian states. And people can be led to strange beliefs. This book was written thirty years ago. Who at that time would have believed that evangelicals could vote for our current President?