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Article: Data on denial.(religious protests of social problems)(Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- September 10, 1997
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Some teachers of preaching tell students to write AWYLH on the margins at certain points in their sermons. "Argument Weak Yell Like Hell." A similar practice may be at work among citizens whose polemical efforts seem to derive from their own frustrations or denials. The rhetoric of "family values," for example, often comes from places where frustration, denial or even bluff might prevail. I take up this subject thanks to a letter from Thomas J. Duffy of Concord, New Hampshire, which is in the Northeast--the pagan, subversive, valueless, relativist, elitist region that some Bible Belters want sawed off from the rest of the nation. Duffy sent me tables from the Statistical ...
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