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"Mother was a much nicer person than her God. There are numerous biblical rules about from beard-trimming to menstruating. Mother worked well diligently to recast her personal-hygiene-obsessed God in the best light." Alternating between laugh-out-loud displays from his child years and acidic ruminations on today's state of any America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, best-selling creator Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Hurry Limbaughs and the paranoid fantasies of the "right-wing echo chamber" are actually all about. Here is a hint: sex. The memorable central identity in Making love, Mother, and God is the author's far-from-prudish evangelical mom, Edith, who sweetly but bizarrely provides startling juxtapositions of the spiritual and the sensual thoughout Schaeffer's child years. She was, says Frank Schaeffer, "...the greatest illustration of the Divine beauty of Paradox I've experienced... a fundamentalist living a double life as a enthusiast of beauty who broke all her own judgmental rules and only creativity." Charlotte Gordon, the award-winning author of Mistress Bradstreet, message or calls Sex, Mother, and God "a travel de power.... Sarah Palin, 'The Family,' Anne Hutchinson, adultery, abortion, homophobia, Uganda, Ronald Reagan, B. B. King, Billy Graham, Hugh Hefner-it's all here. That is the kind of book I did so not want to end."
