Persuasion Part F
"For the" (implying an all permeating principle)
"Basic tenet" (this is it, there can be no others).
"of former evangelical Christianity" (Why did Falwell rename it?)
"is that they have one basic document on which they predicate everything they believe "
(This assumes a faultless logic)
Christ is they strength and Christ thy might!
Sing my tongue the glorious battle!
"Each fundamentalist Christian shares the same faith"
(As if it were material)
"Our practice" (As if it were material)
"Our life style" (A word borrowed from California for those outside the bible belt)
"Our homes, not houses, etcetera" (Suggesting a lengthy list of areas of perfect agreement)
"Government is the inherency of scripture" (The essence lives within the specific articulations which radiate from the motionless, unchanging center)
As the silent watches guard us!
Fight the good fight with all thy might!
"A story of genesis etcetera whatever you might think of"
"Totally and entirely" (implying Successfully, implying Shame on you)
" Christian brothers perfection in understanding interpreting and practicing the very word "(not plural)
"of God" (if the word was plural it would be more difficult to make a material principle from which a plurality of articulations radiate.)
"The main line" (A term with drug connotations)
"Denominational churches that are merging are those churches that have decided
'We don't want an authoritative message' " (This resonates with the phrase "revolt against authority")
"We want rather to create our own religion "
"Do your own thing!"
(This ass appropriates a phrase attributed to Hippies and applies it to churches in competition with his own)
"And rewrite it, rewrite it and update it" (He does not mention retranslate it}
"As time passes"
(He thus produces a model of his church as having a principle of truth: the King James version of the bible, and other churches having no truth, merely skating on the surface of the present, falling...)
The praises of my God shall still my heart!
"People want what people have always wanted."
"They want a message from God".
(He does not at this point clarify whether he is referring to the fundamentalist Christian God or a generalized God like an archetype,
an archetype,
archetype,
as if we could repeat...)