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I suspect this is a well thought-out book, really I do. But this concept of Jesus as the man-prophet has been an integral part of the American landscape since its inception. Thomas Jefferson frequently attended Joseph Priestly's church, the first Unitarian church in the US. And at the heart of Unitarianism is the non-divinity of Jesus.
If anyone thinks that it was an accident that the nation was founded on very non-Trinitarian and only vaguely religious documents and ideals, it most certainly was not.
I won't even bother to talk about the subject of evil and eternal damnation, because that was the purview of the Universalists, who felt is was a lot of rot. (A religion, by the way, that takes us back to the very earliest days of the United States.)
Ultimately, the real problem here is that the average American is so poorly educated about religious history of any kind that we are doomed to repeat these "revelations" forever.
