o-dimensional religion it only is about you not about God. (Page 17) A truly loving God would not want his people to be afraid continually of hell. He would want us to be thinking of him and heaven.The book also portrays religion as a drug or vitamin. That taken yearly will ensure good health and salvation. The townspeople appear on the outside to be converting during this revival series. They are only going though the motions of conversion with out any of it actually occurring. The people would faint and cry out with what they believed was true conversion; but it was only fake conversions so that they would appear as religious in front of their neighbors and friends. This portrayal is a very fake and false type of religion. From my personal experience you cannot be converted in an impulse of emotion. The book also uses Petes parents to portray religion as an awful thing. His parents for some reason do not attend church and also try to discourage Pete from attending church also. (Page 31) The book never explains why his parents are not religious. At first it appears that they are only agnostic not actively against it just disinterested. The reader can infer from the fact that his parents have a secret and will not tell Pete that it is caused by some kind of incident like what happened to Pete. His parents are not very active in dissuading him from attending the revival but they are not happy that he attends his father is very disappointed that he got saved. The reader can infer that the parents were not interested in Pete acquiring any religious beliefs or habits. I believe that his parents also were disaffected by a person very like the Preacher Man and are now turned off from religion because of what happened. It would appear as if the father had been the one to be affected because he is the character that I noticed seemed to be the most disapproving and not the mother. His father seems to believe that Pete needs t...
