The war started in the summer of 2013. The new President, the one we’d chosen, turned out to be as anti-religion as they told us he’d be, but after the divisive years of the Bush presidency, and the disappointment that was the second President Clinton, we were willing to overlook that, just to have a change. Within a few months after he was inaugurated, all religious practice had been outlawed. The conservative evangelical Christians, the fundamentalists, the ones who had been right all along; they didn’t like that. And so, the rebellion began.
By the end of the year, they were in control. Unfortunately, that wasn’t a whole lot better. Sure, religion was legal again, but only theirs—we’d been taken straight into a theocracy. Some of the other religious groups were unhappy, and within a month or two there was talk of more rebellion, more fighting. Only one group, though, was bold enough to follow through.