Nietzsche: “You have caged [God], tamed him, domesticated him, and the priests have pliantly lent their aid. The roaring bull has become a listless ox. You have gelded God!’ ”1 It was perhaps as easy as it was natural for Nietzsche, a philosopher, to blame Christians themselves for the “death” of God. But before we judge too hastily, is it possible that the analysis has much to commend it? I think so. John W. Whitehead’s The Stealing of America expressed the growing resentment of the Christian right