Speaking In Tongues ,Creatively

PEOPLE WHO SPEAK IN TONGUES, in church, in the shower, or wherever, while writhing and convulsing beneath the alter, have probably never given much thought to the rather obvious fact that the authenticity of their adventure in linguistic accomplishment can be verified, or discredited, rather easily. Whether they are channeling some ancient forgotten bona fide language, or mouthing gibberish, improvising, as it were, making it al up as they go along, putting on an act; this can be definitively determined. Alas, it turns out that they are; making it all up on the spot,, spewing meaningless nonsense, pulling a fast one, so to speak. Every single one of them. To a discerning mind, this probably comes as no surprise. All a discerning mind has to do is record the tongue lashing, slow down the tape, listen, and analyze. Sure enough, no discernable, intelligible language ever manifests. In the book of Acts, the apostles were given, among other supernatural powers, the ability to spontaneously speak in every known language in the world, presumably for the purpose of expediting the spreading of the gospel. Nineteen hundred years later, this story, having been largely left alone previously, was brought to life in te the United States, the only place where it could have been. (They don't speak in tongues anywhere else). The new Pentecostal denomination imbued itself with biblical linguistic talent, and the hollers and mountaintops of Appalachia came to life as never before. But, alas, its nothing but nonsense syllables, the evident intent being to sound as much different from modern American English as possible, and as cryptically arcane as can be. No coherent, consistent sentence structure, which exists all real languages, no nouns, no verbs, no adjectives or adverbs. Nothing with the slightest trace of meaning. How surprising. are the speakers in tongues deceiving themselves, the rest of us, or both? All of the above. We Americans take flim flam to an entirely new level, and we don't bother to stop at the doorways of our houses of worship. No civilization on the face of God's green earth ever did it better. We are perfectly to believe whatever we want, and we take full advantage of the opportunity. In America, all truths are created equal, and each and every one of us has a different version. The word "advertising" used to mean "to publish information". Now, it means, to sell people a bill of goods by using a pack of lies, and you somehow sense that we would keep right on doing our thing, in whatever language we choose.