Part memoir, part cautionary tale, and even part self-help work, “God, Faith, and Reason” by best-selling author and conservative radio host Michael Savage is also a diatribe against the Left — and at the same time, an offering to his Old Testament God.

“God gave me all my previous success,” he says. “I knew my next book had to give something back to God.”

So far, success for Savage has taken the form of 26 books, including, most recently, “Trump’s War: His Battle for America,” which marked his seventh consecutive appearance on The New York Times Best Sellers list. His nationally syndicated radio show, “The Savage Nation,” boasts millions of listeners and broadcasts on more than 230 stations.

Savage, 75, also holds a Ph.D. in epidemiology and nutrition sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.

Success, however, doesn’t guarantee a pain-free or perfect life as Savage, who grew up in New York City with an atheist father in a culturally Jewish home, concedes.

“When I was down and out, I had to go down to the core of my being and reach out to the Man Upstairs, to put it colloquially. And I had to ask Him to save me.”

“But this is very important for you to know,” he writes in the book. “When I was down and out, I had to go down to the core of my being and reach out to the Man Upstairs, to put it colloquially. And I had to ask Him to save me.”

Savage’s God fares prominently in the Old Testament, specifically the five books of Moses: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. Yet throughout the book, he laments the waning of Judeo-Christian values in American society.

The purpose of the First Amendment, he insists, is so that people of good will can disagree on matters pertaining to different interpretations of faith and God. “It wasn’t to ban God from the public square. That’s a liberal perversion of the First Amendment,” he says.

Savage describes himself as a “superrational man up to a point” and claims that faith and reason are not incompatible. “Faith is believing in something, whether it’s reasonable or not.”

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That’s not to say his faith is absolute. “I myself go back and forth between a fervent belief that God exists and not believing there is anything out there,” he says.

He’s certainly got some good company. Savage recalls what a great day it was for him when he learned that St. Mother Teresa also straddled belief and unbelief.

“What a selfless woman she [Mother Teresa] was [in] working with the sick, and not just in a soup kitchen on Thanksgiving, like the liberals of San Francisco dishing out mashed potatoes and then holding their noses as they run away, to make believe how good they are.”

Savage’s disdain for the Left, to be sure, is palpable. And in no uncertain terms, he’s on a mission to save America from liberals. As he sees it, “Every institution we grew up with in this country has been blown up. There is almost nothing left.”

Savage’s power of observation over time gives the book its undisputed potency, which is sure to rile the PC police — to put it mildly.

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“When Americans drove around in Dodge Darts and other big American cars in the 1970s, there were St. Christopher statues all over America,” he recalls in a chapter on amulets. “Suddenly, we woke up in the 1990s and there were dream catchers hanging from every mirror. Every girl in the Bay area with chlamydia was driving around with a dream catcher, hoping the dream catcher would cure her. It didn’t work,” he laments.

When was the last time you heard someone put an STD in such a disparaging light? Savage is unabashed in his criticism of how out-of-control things are in our country today.

Rampant drug use, Halloween, and Burning Man are a few other targets.

“If God were more present in our daily lives, whether it be the Ten Commandments in a classroom, a Jesus statue on your work desk, a Bible proudly displayed in your cubicle, or a prayer session from time to time, there would be less drug use and less insanity overall,” he says.

Savage doesn’t stop there. “I’ve made a certain observation. The larger the number of Halloween displays on a lawn or a house, the more ghosts, the more eerie things that they put up for their children and the neighborhood children, the more liberal the inhabitants are.”

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He also takes on celebrities and Silicon Valley tech execs who flock to the annual Burning Man festival, which he refers to as “idiots in the desert, wearing idiotic costumes while stoned.”

The event, which takes its name from a ritual burning of a large wooden effigy of a man, is celebrated as an exercise in radical self-expression by throngs of participants.

Savage doesn’t see it that way. “It’s the epitome of paganism,” he admonishes. “They are making wooden effigies and burning them. That’s what the Bible warned against.”

“God, Faith and Reason” (Center Street) is available now. 

Elizabeth Economou is a freelance writer based in Seattle, Washington. 

(photo credit, homepage image of Savage: Vincent Remini)