Lets look at Ma n' Pa. What lead Pa to become a fervent Born Yesterday Christian?
The odds their story is far off this trail is unlikely. Keep in mind this is not their story but I'll bet my left nut it is close.
Dirt poor hippy dropouts who married in their early teens, lived in a shack on the swamp, drank heavily, did drugs, spat out a litter of kids feeding them bush and swamp meat so they could drink and do more drugs with their welfare cheque as well as income from growing swamp pot.
Pot turns to cocaine and far more alcohol which leads to abuse and being punted from the shack a few times. Eventually police get called. After sitting in remand for a couple weeks drying out Pa is given the options by courts to go to rehab and anger management, keep his halfwit child bride with a litter of kids after a review by Child Protective Services or do 18 months in County taking a redneck spa vacation.
While in rehab Pa's suppressed neurons start to fire left right and center bringing a flood of no longer hazed over and buried memories of being abused as a young boy and the abuses he dealt out to his wife and kids and all the guilt and shame that goes along with it trips a relapse.
Pa binges to a new low but with repaired neurons intact, is hauled off before the Courts again. Pa fearing the worst is humbled by a judge who gives him a second chance at rehab because the judge believed that is what Jesus would do and Pa finally sees the patterns they talked about in rehab the first time when Pa was still in denial of his addictions, the roots of his woes and that the session he had to attend in rehab.
One day in rehab while eating lunch Pa starts talking to a fellow is leaving that afternoon and is a changed man. Pa asks how he did it, the man replies "Jesus guided me back to my family and a new life".
Pa still can't shake off the guilt and depression after another week without eating hits physical bottom and goes into psychosis.
A shrink is called and Pa is heavily sedated, rehydrated, and high caloric IV nutrition started.
Ma and the kids come to visit and they all start to cry when they see him in bed wired on Haldol.
Later that night while lucid dreaming he sees his family again but this time Jesus is hovering over them leading them back and he remembers the guy at lunch saying "Jesus guided me back to my family and a new life".
A few days go by and Pa is eating again. Not only has Pa been purged of the remaining drug and booze toxins but nicotine as well.
Not just nibbling but eating everything in sight. His new neurons want fat and more new connects are being made in droves.
Pa decides to try the Christian group one Sunday and fills those new neurons with links to Jesus guiding his family back to him.
As Pa keeps feeding his newly rewired brain he is also rewiring it with Born Yesterday beliefs.
Had he just stuck with what Jesus said and did without adding the Born Yesterday philosophy he wouldn't have turned out to be that kind a of a dry drunk Christian.
