Christian dystopias and villains
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This is a list of works which significantly feature Christianity as a threat, in a primarily antagonistic capacity, or feature Christianity as a major part of a dystopia.
Christian movements or governments
- Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale
- Gael Baudino's fantasy series Strands of Starlight and sequels features Christianity taking over
- Flynn Connolly's The Rising of the Moon (Catholicism)
- Esther M. Friesner's The Psalms of Herod and The Sword of Mary
- Camarin Grae. Stranded (1991, Naiad) (3 women from a hermaphroditic species are sent as "disembodied minds" to Earth to stop a villain. They end up identifying as lesbians and fighting a fundamentalist movement led by the villain. The villain begins by taking over churches, but this is not a Christian movement, although it does use the trappings of angels, God, etc.)
- Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing (post-millennial fundamentalist Christian sect)
- Sheri S. Tepper's Raising the Stones (an evolution [no pun intended, heh heh] of fundamentalist Christian / Islamic sects)
- Sheri S. Tepper Grass (Catholicism /Mormonism)
- Sheri S. Tepper The Gate to Women's Country (fundamentalist Christian sect)
- Sheri S. Tepper Gibbon's Decline and Fall (fundamentalist Christians and Muslims in near-future USA)
- See also Coming of the Patriarchy
Individual Christians
- "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (Disney animated version)
