A book by
Harold Bloom
in which he asserts that
Americans believe themselves to be
Christians
but are, in fact,
Gnostics.
He discusses
Pentecostalists,
Mormons,
Adventists,
Christian Scientists,
and
Jehovah's Witnesses
specifically, as well as
Southern Baptists
and
African-Americans.
"The essence of the American is the belief that God loves her or him,
a conviction shared by nearly nine out of ten of us,
according to a Gallup poll.
To live in a country where the vast majority so enjoy's God's
affection is deeply moving,
and perhaps an entire society can sustain being the object of so sublime a regard,
which after all was granted only to
King David in the whole of the Hebrew Bible."
Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1993, ISBN 0-671-67997-X and 0-671-86737-7 (paperback).