… and the all white wet people cheer in Iowa! It’s WET not WHITE.
They hear voices in their heads, they ask invisible beings for invisible help, their brains work on a different level, but most importantly – as we witness here – they speak in a different language. What two young men climbed the ramparts of what, when, where? Among themselves it’s an understood.
I think what happens is somewhere along the line they find life so depressing and the world about them so confusing, they toss rational thought to the wind and narrow their world down to one simple book and one simple world view. Thinking not included. Just absolute obedience. It is why God so loved Abraham. It’s like the supernatural version of Simon Says.