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Red Mutiny
Neal Bascomb holds his reader's attention as well as Louis L'Amour, but with a subject out of history not fiction. Set in 1905 on the Black Sea, for eleven days sailors in the Russian navy held the world's attention, as they hijacked the fleet's fintest, the battleship Potemkin. The Romanov tsar, Nicholas II, lay trapped in a heritage that doomed Russia to failure that real movement toward shared power would have avoided.
The leader of the revolt, Afanasy Metyushenko, a tragic figure concerned only for the oppressed, led a successful takeover of the ship, even encouraged another to temporarily join the "revolution," but in the long run failed, as the inspiration he conceived failed to significantly impact. I would liken Metyushenko to a secular, if one may use that term, Bonheoffer, so passioned was he for the revolt that he returned to Russia unable to live the expatriate life--of Vladimir Lenin and others, ending his journey suspended from a hangman's noose.
So how about some comparative analysis. When will the proletariat of USA fundamental Christianity revolt from the dominate authority of their aristocratic "pastors" and bourgeoisie adult sunday school teachers, who control via "doctrine" a culture of Christian pacifism that hardly engages the lost society in which it lives. Perhaps this deliberately overstated opinion reacts to a layer of "professional Christianity" that has turned God's revelation into an idolatrous religion, but action always speaks louder than words.
