" It is not coincidental that New Calvinism, with its punishing, masculine God, flourished during the early years of the millennium, when the country at large succumbed to warmongering and regressive heroic myths. When I think back on my professor's rants against therapeutic deism and the feminized Christ, I cannot but see a distortion of the politics of the Bush era, in which the promise of compassionate conservatism collapsed into the lawless vigilantism of shock and awe. "

― Meghan O'Gieblyn , God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning