Josiah Hesse > Quotes

“Following Graham’s efforts”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“The libertarian icon—and failed 1964 GOP presidential candidate—Barry Goldwater famously despised evangelicals: “If and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party…it’s going to be a terrible damn problem.”[*] But Billy Graham had never shied away from politics,”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“On average”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“began looking at the exercise habits of adults over age sixty and found that those who used cannabis were more healthy and active than those who didn’t.”
― Josiah Hesse, Runner's High: How a Movement of Cannabis-Fueled Athletes Is Changing the Science of Sports

“I do not believe...as the Bible commands me to, that Jesus died for my sins, or that God raised him from the dead. I think the Bible is a politically infected, historically inaccurate, poorly translated mess. I do not believe in any of this and will no longer fear an eternity of torture in Hell, because I can find no evidence that such a place exists. I will live by reason, science, and observation, not on faith or fear.”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“Gipper. “You got elected on themes.”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“they represented a split that occurred in American Christianity in the twentieth century—the working-class”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“I could dismiss it all as propaganda, a creation of the atheistic, liberal, government-run education conspiracy machine, secretly manipulated by a campaign of demons to sway children toward evolution, mind control, and eternal torture in Hell.

Or I could accept that I'd been fed a load of bullshit, and had a great deal of work to do to provide myself with a proper education.

Kent Hovind once said, 'Seventy-five percent of kids from Christian homes who go to secular schools lose their faith after one year.' And I suddenly understood why,”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History

“public school would often lead to a spiral of questions I couldn’t square with my evangelical beliefs—which was how I knew they were traps of Satan.”
― Josiah Hesse, On Fire for God: Fear, Shame, Poverty, and the Making of the Christian Right - a Personal History