If, on the other hand, the Gospel story is mere political allegory, it no longer has any power to command belief; Christ's imperatives dribble into the dust of Palestine.
The difference was that the novel couldn't command belief with religion's authority, because it was already too aware of its own status - what Wood, citing Thomas Mann, called the "game of not-quite".
Ronald Reagan's new Morning in America brought with it in the early 1980s the second coming of a gilded age more swinish than the first, and as the country continues to divide ever more obviously into a nation of the rich and a nation of the poor, the fictions of unity and democratic intent lose their capacity to command belief.
In the false belief command trials, the command statement referred to the fruit that is named on the critical secretive box but which is actually inside the other secretive box (e.g., "Please choose which box contains the banana". Figure 1. top-right).
False belief command trials and reality command trials were presented in a pseudorandom order, avoiding consecutive false belief command trials in order to reduce the likelihood of participants inferring the purpose of the experiment.
Nine "false belief command trials" and 18 "reality command trials" were presented.
For the task of applying understanding of false beliefs, a significant main effect for group was found on belief command trials [ F 2,138)=22.204, P<0.001], but not for reality command trials [ F 2,138)=1.230, P=0.299].
Post-hoc comparisons (Bonferroni corrected) showed that both the remitted schizophrenia group (P<0.001) and the non-remitted schizophrenia group (P<0.001) performed worse than healthy controls on false belief command trials.
Christians should always be following God, if they are not, and should, also, be attempting to glorify and honor God, and their belief commands considerable value, when it aligns with the Gospel of Jesus Christ as [it is] presented in the Bible.
Thus the adoption of the command system implied a belief that the ground radars would be accurate enough to provide satisfactory interception even at the limits of the expected field of fire.
But if the subject asserts "P but I don't believe that P" in such cases, she does not (contra the initial supposition) really have a rational command of the nature of belief and assertion; and thus it's not a genuine case of self-blindness as originally intended.
