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Book cover for The Hate Next Door: Undercover within the New Face of White Supremacy
Hate, and its particular rendering of White supremacy, has morphed over the past forty years. The pointy hats became shaved heads, bad tattoos, and shiny Doc Marten boots. Then the boots morphed into camouflage and the idea of “protecting ...more
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Benjamin L. Corey
“When we place the Bible on equal footing with God, we become paralyzed by how to deal with it--because any criticism of the Bible becomes criticism of God himself.

The cure for the religion of Biblicism is the realization that Jesus is the inerrant Word of God, and the Bible is just a collection of inspired and useful writings that introduce us to him.

Let me be clear: whenever we find tension between something Jesus taught and something taught elsewhere in the Bible, the tiebreaker always goes to Jesus. Always.”
Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

Jason F. Stanley
“If the society is divided, however, then a demagogic politician can exploit the division by using language to sow fear, accentuate prejudice, and call for revenge against members of hated groups. Attempting to counter such rhetoric with reason is akin to using a pamphlet against a pistol.”
Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

C.S. Lewis
“On the other hand, if God's moral judgement differs from ours so that our 'black' may be His 'white', we can mean nothing by calling Him good; for to say 'God is good', while asserting that His goodness is wholly other than ours, is really only to say 'God is we know not what'. And an utterly unknown quality in God cannot give us moral grounds for loving or obeying Him. If He is not (in our sense) 'good' we shall obey, if at all, only through fear - and should be equally ready to obey omnipotent Fiend. The doctrine of Total Depravity - when the consequence is drawn that, since we are totally depraved, our idea of good is worth simply nothing - may thus turn Christianity into a form of devil-worship.
- The Problem of Pain, pp. 28 - 29”
C. S. Lewis

Benjamin L. Corey
“saying out loud and naming what you don’t believe anymore breaks the power that fear holds over you. When you do this, you can grow and reshape your lenses, and ultimately yourself and your image of God.”
Benjamin L. Corey, Unafraid: Moving Beyond Fear-Based Faith

Jason F. Stanley
“Fascist politics seeks to undermine public discourse by attacking and devaluing education, expertise, and language. Intelligent debate is impossible without an education with access to different perspectives, a respect for expertise when one’s own knowledge gives out, and a rich enough language to precisely describe reality.”
Jason F. Stanley, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them

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