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The first of these politicized institutions were in Iberia: Spain followed by Portugal. The true purpose of these Inquisitions wasn’t doctrinal; they weren’t supposed to investigate heresies or convert the Jews or ensure that the Jews who
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“As Ellena Mayer talked about how everyone had mistreated her and discriminated against her for being a woman and a talented genetic designer, I classed her as the type of woman who doesn’t understand everyone who is unusually brilliant is “discriminated against” for the simple fact of being different from the common herd, and therefore both resented, and suspicious.”
― No Man's Land: Volume 3
― No Man's Land: Volume 3
“There were cuttings about flying saucers, about secret weapons, about truth drugs used by Russians, and claims for fantastic drugs discovered by American doctors. All the witchcraft, so Neele thought, of our twentieth century.”
― A Pocket Full of Rye
― A Pocket Full of Rye
“We have convinced church leaders and music ministers that classical choral styles are unattractive to the younger crowd, that so-called ‘seekers’ will be—what’s the American term?—turned off by a Mendelssohn psalm or a hymn arranged for choral singing. At the same time we have allowed such music to flourish in secular environments and liberal churches where its spiritual effect is negligible. Many evangelical music ministers now consider it a fact beyond question that radio styles, driven to popularity by clever marketing schemes, are the way to penetrate the hearts of those attending church. Repetitive phrases and a beat that encourages clapping are taken as sure signs of our Enemy working in the hearts of the congregation.”
― The Wormwood Archive
― The Wormwood Archive
“If you have ever seen people engaging in mutual worship of one another, you know it is a beautiful sight. Only self-worship is more enjoyable to watch.”
― The Wormwood Archive
― The Wormwood Archive
“In front of them, on the ground, was a massive bell, with a Wayne standing either side of it, looking as if breathing in and out in the right order was taking up a huge amount of mental effort. Claremont was no campanologist–in fact, his knowledge of bells extended only to knowing the word ‘campanologist’–but the thing looked pretty damn big to him.”
― Ring the Bells
― Ring the Bells
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