Brothers and sisters! I say, brothers and sisters lend me your ear! I have read the words of Mr. Sinclair Lewis as set down in the good book
Elmer Gantry in which this author of the early 20th century condemns organized religion, most notably the Baptist Church. His main character, a one Mr. Elmer Gantry, as the title suggests, is an most insincere and hypocritical preacher of the faith. Insincere and hypocritical! Yes sah, that is the crux, the very essence of the text. A text of greater length than needs be, though great enough for the showing of many a various facet of the numerous Christian sects. Elmer himself floats most randomly from one to the other like the lowest sinner descending the layers of Hell, where evil takes on many a cunning disguise. Nothing is as it seems there, as can be said with
Elmer Gantry where even "Scotty" the golf pro is not an actual Scot, but a fraud who's learnt his false accent from a Liverpudlian Irishman! False deceptors, ye be damned! Thus is the condemnation of Sinclair Lewis, a man who him very self has aspersion cast upon him. Yes, it is true, my brothers and sisters! Though Mr. Lewis condemns the wayward ways of organized religion's leaders, he also condemns hisself, literally invoking his own name within these pages through the mouth of a criticizer of the author's past works. Though he does this, still upon publication the people's of the State of New Hampshire, once known as the "Live Free or Die" State, invited Mr. Lewis to a New Hampshire jail cell. And the people of Virginia promised to hang, yes I said hang the good author for the work he had done...I ask you, brothers and sisters, is this Christianity? Is this God's will?
