Abstract

Returning to survey the aftermath of the disastrous confrontation in Waco, Texas between the national state and the Branch Davidian followers of David Koresh, novelist Larry McMurtry noted perceptively that the whole approach of federal agents to these prophetic believers was flawed by the assumption that they would behave predictably. Government may proceed on that assumption, he observed, but faith needn't; and one doesn't have to be much of a student of the centuries of faith to realize how frequently and how absolutely this particular governmental assumption has been refuted.

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