“Right now, as you read this, you are alone, you gorgeous solitary creature. But I am with you. We share this paragraph and these words, and even if you don’t agree with me you are listening and we have connected in small and large ways. And in that way we are not alone. We are together. And in a way that doesn’t even require you to put on pants.”
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― Broken
“I can still afford the expensive medications and doctors’ bills and there are a lot of people who can’t. I’m lucky. I could be sicker. I could be dead. I could be dead. I wrote that twice because I’m saying it with two different emotions. One where I’m so grateful to be alive and another sneakier, terrible thought where I realize that if I do die I’ll get some rest. That’s fucked up. I know it. And as soon as it hits my mind I shoo it away because I know it’s the depression, but this is a place for honesty, so there it is.”
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“You are killing me. You are shaming me. You are standing in the way of the health and happiness of so many of us. And you are making money while standing on our backs and telling us how much we don't need the things that keep us alive.”
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“It is not a social or cultural movement. It is a political movement, and its ultimate goal is power. It does not seek to add another voice to America’s pluralistic democracy but to replace our foundational democratic principles and institutions with a state grounded on a particular version of Christianity, answering to what some adherents call a “biblical worldview” that also happens to serve the interests of its plutocratic funders and allied political leaders.”
― The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
― The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
“You maximize the moral anguish of those whose “values” you share and protect their “rights” wherever possible. And you minimize the suffering of those who don’t belong to the group and treat their rights as merely selfish demands.”
― The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
― The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism
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