America: That Land of Waifs and Strays
The strangeness and uprootedness of American life can leave people vulnerable to radical ideas.
Justice of the Rupture
Matthew chapter 4, verses 8 and 9 imply that the 'devil' has the power to bestow 'the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them,' if we will only worship him. Jesus's resistance to these temptations represents the justice of the rupture.