It’s not that God is a bad thing to be obsessed with. It’s just that when a group of people who believe in the same god come together things tend to tilt in particular, at times hateful, ways. Rose Mueller is smart enough to sense this, though not smart enough to take up her own god-interest practice. It is difficult to send back a dinner after you have ordered it, especially in the suburbs of Dallas, and especially when you are a villager. In a village everyone knows everyone’s business. In a village it’s much, much easier to eat what you’ve been served.
