Remember, philosophically speaking, Americans are mongrels – practical materialists but with a dreamy streak of divine approval.

Indeed, if their wristbands asked them the question: “What-Would-Jesus-Buy” – well now, that could very well revolutionize the Christian church in America.

With Truth, Reason, and Morality off the board, we then capture their last Rook – that prissy little virtue, Temperance – for she depends on those other three for her beauty and was thus left wholly undefended.

Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional – the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.

That sense of entitlement is precisely where we want them because the right to happiness is directly opposed to one of The Adversary’s greatest curatives – gratitude.

With addiction, a client’s fears can be ripened into some very pleasing fruit: Irritability, suspiciousness, isolation, paranoia, and finally on to that grand banana – the fear of Fear itself.

Trust becomes the only road home, back to love.

Trust is crazy. You are a risky, risky, God. I didn’t sign up to be Amazing Trust Boy, and I did not sign up for Danger God. You’re flatly not safe…

They really do occupy a scrumptious little dark corner of my heart!

Besides, these box-checking Christians having such a majority is largely in our favor. Their ubiquity is inversely proportional to their efficacy.