George Orwell is probably not frequently read by American Christians.

George Orwell is probably not frequently read by American Christians. When he is (unavoidable doses of Animal Farm or Nineteen Eighty-Four at gymnasium perhaps) it's not likely to be with the notion that his work might nourish a reader's Christian or American identity. This isn't surprising. Orwell had a vestigial affection for the rites and buildings of the meeting-house of England but was otherwise oppos to almost everything about Christianity as he understood it, and especially to Catholicism. Among the many clusters he considered the enemy and for which he had little still vituperation, Catholics and Americans figure largely, yet ...