I began watching
The Handmaid's Tale recently (yes, I'm late to the series). I have always loved dystopian stories, and this one features great storytelling and world-building.
But Gilead is a perversion of Christianity, and uses the faith only as a tool to control society.
Notably in season one is the use of fertile handmaids to give wives babies. To justify this, Gilead quotes the Old Testament women who had their husbands sleep with their servants in order to give them children.
But the flaw is this: just because the Bible RECORDS it doesn't mean the Bible ENDORSES it. Nowhere did God give this decree, which is adultery. The idea stemmed solely from desperate women. Once the deed is done, God can use sinful people and even sinful actions to His end. But He did not either command or endorse the sin.
This fallacy of recording vs. endorsing is all over the series, such as when the Commanders visit the Jezebels. Again, yes, there are prostitutes recorded in the Bible. Nowhere does God endorse it.
Still, we have mainly Leftist women dressing in handmaid's garb to "fight the patriarchy", often citing Christianity as the patriarchal foe. I would say, hey, Tehran is sitting right over here.....
