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Patterson
Mrs
Johnson
corruption
cult
[... 12 paragraphs ...]
A certain amount of comparative isolation from the world is necessary if you are to understand man’s condition. Yet the woman is not weak, but strong: nor is she unaware of some irony in the situation.
[... 23 paragraphs ...]
The fundamentalist Christian groups, for all of their fanaticism, at least offer some kind of temporary relief for their believers; they are “saved” through prayer and good works. Many other sects, however, offer no such comfort, as for example the Guyana group. The concentration upon self-betrayal and worldly corruption offers no escape. Expression becomes meaningless under such conditions, not trusting the structure of the self, then the self’s expression is denied. It is feared. Yet the new self never comes—not the promised, overly idealized self that feels a godly love without distinctions. And all good works appear meaningless in the terribly exaggerated picture painted of social and world events.
[... 15 paragraphs ...]
