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In the end, a market-driven approach to religion gives rise to a market-driven approach to truth, and this development ultimately eviscerated conservative Christianity in the U.S. and left it the possession of hypocrites and hucksters.”
“I was glad enough that I had not become a preacher, and so would not have to go through a war pretending that Jesus had not told us to love our enemies.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“War prevails over peace, I imagine, finally because it brings an apparently simple end to the great burden of civilized thought.”
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
“The worst temptation of religious people has always been to publish and punish the sins of (other) sinners in this world, with no patience or deference for the judgment of God.”
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
“we had better bear in mind also something that I am not the first or the smartest writer to notice: that for the making and sustenance of movements hatred is more effective than love.”
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
“I am writing in another age of violence when, again beyond my understanding, gunmen have killed children in their schools and we continue to kill children in war. I can only ask the obvious question: How and how soon, from the high threshold of violence established by the Civil War in the seceded states and Kentucky, might a people be expected to descend to a level even of approximate peace? Or: How might they prevent the militarily acceptable violence of any war from inspiring and excusing unacceptable violence during and after the war?”
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
― The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice
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