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The food is all Church of America brand; in addition to founding the Church itself, Frick was the CEO of its accompanying multimillion-dollar corporation. They publish the magazines and run the Church television networks, and they produce end-of-the-world provisions like these—bottles of Holy Spring Water, a bland SpaghettiOs knockoff called Christ Loops.
— Nov 27, 2017 08:08PM
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The Believers before had a smugness about them, a sureness that they’d go to heaven and the rest of us wouldn’t; these Believers aren’t quite so sure, and that makes them angry and violent and desperate. I do my best to keep my eyes on the ground, off their faces, because I am supposed to be playing the part of subservient female, and because to look at them scares me.
— Nov 30, 2017 10:18PM
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It's one of the many parts of the Book of Frick that make you wonder whether or not Frick was just straight-up on 'shrooms when he was writing it; make that accusation to a Believer, however, as I did to my parents in their mission to convert me, and they will whine that "it's only a metaphor!" and imply that your inability to grasp nuance is a large part of what ensures your eternal damnation.
— Nov 30, 2017 08:53PM
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For a week, we bide our time in Lawrenceville. She’s got the $2,017.51 she withdrew from her parents� checking account, and a couple of conservative-looking scarves to tie around our heads should we need to go outside. But we go back and forth about what we ought to do now.
— Nov 30, 2017 08:10PM
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I grab my suitcase and slip a ring of keys off the hook right behind the apartment’s front door. I take the elevator into the basement, where the car Grandpa Grant bought off the grieving woman is parked. This is car theft. This is running away. This is some punk-rock New Orphans shit. This is not like any Vivian Apple I have ever been before. But this is Vivian Apple at the end of the world.
— Nov 28, 2017 10:25PM
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From the reports, it sounds like every state, city, and town is in disarray. The newscasters discuss riots in Cleveland, Orlando, Detroit, Kansas City; reporters interview distraught Believers left behind in Philadelphia, Nashville, Seattle, Duluth. "It isn't fair!" one woman cries so loudly that the car speakers crackle. The one subject everyone seems to avoid is what we're going to do now.
— Nov 28, 2017 08:04PM
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Frick did as the angels instructed, but the American people did not listen. They fornicated and listened to rap music instead. God was angry, and He Himself appeared to Frick, saying, "You have done as I asked and shall be rewarded, as will those who follow. But as America turned from me, so I shall turn from them. Let the blessed be taken into heaven, and the rest suffer torment until the world finally ends."
— Nov 27, 2017 05:59PM
