America's Four Gods: What We Say about God-- & what that Says about Us is a book published in 2010 by Baylor University professorsPaul Froese and Christopher Bader.The book was based on a 2005 survey of religious views and reports that Americans conception of God fall into four different classes.Further, they report, American's views on political, moral and scientific issues are usually tied to their conception of God. The four different conceptions of God described in the book are the authoritative God, the benevolent God, the critical God and the distant God.