The Protest

By Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell

The Protest is a love story that tells of a woman who loved too easily and then not easily enough; a man who loved so much he would give up the Garden of Eden; and children who were terrified to love... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 097234988X
• ISBN13: 9780972349888
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Wordsmith Pub Inc
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Using God Wrong

Somehow Religion has become the way for people to get there way or destroy others who don't agree to their opinion. This book open my eyes to what has happened in my family to continue to make people wrong because you don't agree with there opinion and control...God is the person whom they use to get what they want. The example in this book is a perfect example of that. It's ok for people who use God to get what they want and tell children some how they are correct in everything they say.....This book is an example as to how damaging the world has become. Getting the information out in the world in this form will help everyone to see how it can infect you and your family.....God of whatever domination never preached, agreed to all that goes on in his Name.......We need to heed the people who use God to abuse what we would believe is so against Motherhood, Fatherhood and family how ever it got created....It is distructive in every form....Our Book Club in Honolulu Hawaii all read this book and see what Dianne went through to have a life and lived without her children because she didn't have the power or nobody saw the truth in the situation...becaused they used God.

Christians?

Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell's novel The Protest is the story of a woman's loss of her two daughters, not to drugs, not to accident, not to disease, but to "Christianity" run amok. Ultimately, it's a frightening work because, like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, it's all too believable. Bunnell's characters are credible, her ear for dialogue is superb, and she avoids the trap of being overly didactic. Yet, it's her understanding of the mechanics of manipulation - how zealots use fear, intimidation, warped logic, perversions of the law, and twisted interpretations of scripture -- that made the greatest impact on this reader: I confess to losing a fair amount of sleep during the read, and just recalling some passages starts my teeth grinding. The Protest tells a compelling story and gives the reader a very personal look at a phenomenon that has been given all too little publicity. It should be required reading for anyone who calls himself a Christian. JB

A Timely Tale

Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell's powerful novel "The Protest" tells the timely tale of religion gone awry, of religious authority wielded with the intent to manipulate, to isolate, to alienate and, finally, to destroy. Through inspired characters, rich dialogue and unrelenting suspense, "The Protest" chronicles the lives of one family literally torn apart by "Christianity." Ultimately however, Bunnell's story is a hopeful one of survival and resurrection and of the triumph of deed over word. "The Protest" is an important book in a critical time: I would highly recommend it to all concerned by the abuse and misuse of authority and power, religious and political, to create fear and destroy the opposition.

A small town has a subtly poisonous nemesis

The Protest is an intensely involving, deftly written saga by Dianne Kozdrey Bunnell of how power, authority, and religion can be abused. A small town has a subtly poisonous nemesis, the Reverend Logan Churlick, whose focus on one small, close-knit family threatens to spell personal detestation. A tautly written and suspenseful tale, The Protest is recommended for community library collections and personal reading lists.