The Hook & The Normalization of the Abnormal

2. The Hook & The Normalization of the Abnormal

• The Survival Hook: “I might be physically dead… it’s not me doing it, it’s God doing it.”
• Empty Words: “I now see how those words [Grace] were empty… I wasn’t conscious of what I was really saying, just what I was taught.”
• The “Ignorance” Defense: “I did it in ignorance… a hypocrite knows he was [doing it].”
• Mocking the Outside: “Everybody in New York would like mock them and put them down.”
• The Divine Seal: “Jesus used me a lot… in spite of [the error]… if that isn’t His grace, what