Blair Hodgkinson

“[In] colonial history...we find true Christian nations—the colonies—founded on Christian principles. Those Christian governments were so tyrannical that they became examples for the founders of how not to build a nation.”
― Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American

“I’m with Christopher Hitchens on this one. Heaven sounds like North Korea — an eternity of mindless conformity spent singing the praises of a powerful tyrant.”
― Greta Christina, Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God

“There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgement of the preponderance between them is continually demanded.’ —Abraham Lincoln”
― Bonnie MacBird, The Devil’s Due

“No. 2’s infamous opening line is a double gambit: the Village does not really want information, of course, only obedience. (From their point of view, information is an exchange-value, not a use-value). In fact, it is No. 6 who truly wants information: information on who No. 1 is, where the Village really is, which side runs it, and how it might be possible to escape.”
― Dennis Redmond, The World is Watching: Video as Multinational Aesthetics, 1968-1995