Fundamentalist Christianity rests on circular reasoning and pat answers. The belief system is brilliantly constructed to provide its own support -- if you don't look too closely at the logic. It is a closed system, satisfied with its own internal evidence of truth. It is closed in that any information or argument from outside is rejected a priori because, as discussed above, it is a "lie", not of the "truth." — Marlene Winell [Leaving the Fold (Oakland, CA: New Harbinger, 1993), p. 83.]