“Watch television?” She was awake now. “Well,” Rydell said, “Fallonites believe God’s sort of just there. On television, I mean.” “God’s on television?” “Yeah. Kind of like in the background or something. Sublett’s mother, she’s in the church herself, but Sublett’s kind of lapsed.” “So they watch tv and pray, or what?” “Well, I think it’s more like kind of a meditation, you know? What they mostly watch is all these old movies, and they figure if they watch enough of them, long enough, the spirit will sort of enter into them.” “We had Revealed Aryan Nazarenes, up in Oregon,” she said. “First
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