{"id":27124,"date":"2015-03-02T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/?p=27124"},"modified":"2015-03-02T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T21:03:36","slug":"when-fantasy-role-playing-replaces-faith-contd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/slacktivist\/2015\/03\/02\/when-fantasy-role-playing-replaces-faith-contd\/","title":{"rendered":"When fantasy role-playing replaces faith (cont’d.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Linda Wall doesn\u2019t like dark, creepy basements. I\u2019m right there with her on that one. Dark, creepy basements are dark, after all. And also creepy.<\/p>\n

But while I share Wall\u2019s general aversion to such places, I don\u2019t think of this as part of an epic, cosmic struggle between Good and Evil. That\u2019s apparently because I also don\u2019t think of myself as a champion of the righteous remnant standing firm against the onslaught of Satan himself, who is sending his legions of Gay Demons to deceive me and enslave me in thrall to his Unitarian servants.<\/p>\n

In the previous\u00a0post<\/a>, we looked at the introduction to Wall\u2019s \u201cSatan and the GLBT Demons<\/a>.\u201d She\u2019s inviting anti-gay Christians to regard her as a heroic champion of the faith. In exchange, she encourages them to entertain the same fantasy about themselves.\u00a0Christians like herself and those who agree to play along are, she said, battling toe-to-toe with:<\/p>\n

\u2026\u00a0none other than Satan himself. His task is to make war with the remnant that keeps the commandments of God and has the testimony of Jesus Christ. He still comes as \u201can angel of light.\u201d He knows scripture and can add to it and twists it so that the elect would be deceived if that were possible.<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Deceiving the elect is actually Wall\u2019s entire agenda there \u2014 with Deception No. 1 being the idea that they are, exclusively, \u201cthe elect.\u201d As such, she urges them to accept that they are immune to deception \u2014 that they have unique access to the meaning of scripture and \u201cthe testimony of Jesus Christ.\u201d Others have fallen away, bowing to \u201cnone other than Satan himself.\u201d But we \u2014 Wall and anyone who accepts her invitation to participate in this deception \u2014 we are \u201cthe remnant that keeps the commandments of God.\u201d<\/p>\n

The self-aggrandizing fantasy here would be hilarious except for the fact that so many people aren\u2019t in on the joke. Not only do many white evangelical Christians see this fantasy as deadly serious, they\u2019ve accepted the bargain being offered by Wall and countless others \u2014 the agreement to help one another fantasize that their otherwise unremarkable lives set them apart as ultra-special saints who are better than everyone else.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to see how such fantasizing can be briefly intoxicating. I fully understand the\u00a0allure of imagining ourselves to be exceptional. Most of us understand this \u2014 just look at our most popular stories, from Star Wars<\/em> to Harry Potter<\/em> to Buffy<\/em> to Cinderella in\u00a0all its endless iterations.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s one think to relate to the longing that Luke or Harry or Cinderella feels and to indulge in those escapist fantasies. It\u2019s something else entirely to decide that you\u00a0actually are<\/em>\u00a0a Jedi knight or a wizard or a princess, and then to try to sustain that fantasy throughout your daily life. Your daily life usually won\u2019t cooperate with such a pretense.<\/p>\n

Sustaining the kind of fantasy Linda Wall invites her readers to indulge in takes an enormous amount of imagination. It requires the collaborative effort of a community of fantasists who agree to cooperate by reinforcing one another\u2019s fantasies. And it requires a willingness to reinterpret every mundane detail of the world around you into something fraught with all the drama of the pageant you\u2019re creating in your head.<\/p>\n

\u201cSatan and the GLBT Demons<\/a>\u201d are not prowling the streets outside of your home. But Linda Wall shows us how to reorganize our lives as though they were.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what actually happens in her column: Her boss, a property manager, asks her to clean out the basement of a rental property. She has a dream about snakes. She cleans out the basement and looks at some photos. Then she goes to a Unitarian church and hears a sermon that references St. Benedict.<\/p>\n

That may not seem like the stuff of legend, but Linda Wall is an evangelical Christian at war with Satan and his baby-killing Gay Demons, so this all becomes epic and exciting<\/em>:<\/p>\n

\n

On one occasion, while my employer was out of town, one of my tasks for the week was to clean out the basement of his house. I put that task off until the very end of the week, because I was actually afraid to go down in the earthen floor basement to rid it of the homeless squatter\u2019s belongings.<\/p>\n

The night before I was due to accomplish this dreaded assignment, I did something I had not done in fifteen years or more; I got on my knees to pray. Somehow I knew I was about to face the rulers of the darkness of this world.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>
A typical Unitarian church service.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After asking God to be with me and protect me, I jumped into bed. What happened next must have been a vision because not enough time had passed for me to be asleep and dreaming. I saw the pile of junk I was to remove from the basement and watched a snake crawl out from beneath it. In my ignorance of the dark side of the supernatural I thought God was telling me to watch out for the snake, but He was warning me about a much bigger serpent!<\/p>\n

The next day I gathered some 50 gallon trash bags, a spotlight and an iron pipe and headed into the cellar. Entry to the earthen floor basement was an exterior entrance much like a tornado shelter. As I swung the heavy wooden cellar doors open my heart raced with fear. While I climbed down the steps I began banging the pipe on anything that would make a noise in hopes of scaring off any snake. Once my feet were on the ground I began shining the spotlight all around.<\/p>\n

I felt like I had stepped into a live horror story. Enormous spider webs were hanging everywhere. The place was damp and cold. What was this place of darkness I had entered? All through the basement were wooden stalls with doors that one might keep animals behind. My imagination went wild as I could only imagine what was going to take place in this basement behind these \u201ccages.\u201d<\/p>\n

Humanly, I was alone in the basement, but I could sense there were many eyes watching me. I began to sing hymns I use to sing as a kid in church. I couldn\u2019t remember all of the words, but what came to mind I sang out loudly. I knew my only line of defense was God\u2019s Word from those \u201cold \u2013timey\u201d hymns.<\/p>\n

As in fast forwarding a movie, I began to stuff the unwanted items into the plastic bags and in a flash the task was completed. What a relief when I exited the cellar and slammed the door. I had been expecting to be captured and locked up any moment the entire time I was down there.<\/p>\n

I caught my breath and immediately entered the house to retrieve my car keys and sunglasses. Before leaving, I noticed all of the eyes in the pictures glaring at me. Often I had studied the art work, but for the first time I understood what they all had in common. It was the eyes. It was Satan himself glaring at me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From here, things take a Lovecraftian turn:<\/p>\n

\n

All of a sudden my brain put little incidences together to paint a bigger picture. Many times I had been invited to attend the \u201ccalling of the dead\u201d that occurred weekly in the room of this house where the windows were painted black. It seemed that every time I turned around my employer was trying to get me to drink something or eat something that was described as \u201cgood for you.\u201d There had also been an ongoing campaign at the gay bar I frequented to convince me to be hypnotized. I had a feeling I had truly encountered the occult.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, I visited the Unitarian church where my employer was also a preacher. He had supposedly been away all week at a seminar for pastors to be alone with God. Even though the dots were connecting to indicate satanic activity, I was still curious enough to attend the service. It ended up being my last.<\/p>\n

When he began to preach he went into a \u201ctrance\u201d speaking with a different accent and under the name of St. Benedict. As I watched this unexplainable happening, I saw the devil\u2019s head on his body and knew God Almighty was intervening and saying, \u201cget out!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The incoherent phantasmagoria of those last three paragraphs\u00a0makes me wonder if this poor woman is, perhaps, unwell. She seems to be exhibiting paranoia and to be experiencing visual hallucinations. Some form of mental illness might be one explanation for her interpretation and characterization of what would otherwise seem to be a rather dull weekend. But it\u2019s not the only explanation.<\/p>\n

This could all be voluntary<\/em>. It could be nothing more than a particularly vivid example of the role-playing fantasy that has come to replace discipleship in American evangelicalism.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

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