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If the Bible needs to be rejected to free Black Christians, then such a view seems to entail that the fundamentalists had interpreted the Bible correctly.
“La gente lo ha capito lo stesso. Le voci sono bastate a non farlo adottare dalla com sotto il capovillaggio precedente. Naturalmente, io gli ho offerto il nome della com una mezza dozzina di volte, ormai".
"Se rinuncio a Ferrigno" replica Cutter. Fa ancora quel suo sorriso sottile.
Ykka abbassa la mano. Ha la mascella contratta. "Negare ciò che sei non ha impedito agli altri di saperlo".
"E ostentarlo non è ciò che ti ha salvato".”
― The Fifth Season
"Se rinuncio a Ferrigno" replica Cutter. Fa ancora quel suo sorriso sottile.
Ykka abbassa la mano. Ha la mascella contratta. "Negare ciò che sei non ha impedito agli altri di saperlo".
"E ostentarlo non è ciò che ti ha salvato".”
― The Fifth Season
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
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“he still knows how to rouse his rabble, how to reach out to poor people, and sic them on other poor people. How much of this nonsense does he believe, I wonder, and how much does he say just because he knows the value of dividing in order to conquer and to rule?”
― Parable of the Talents
― Parable of the Talents
“The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one’s own place, One’s own people, One’s own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise— Into growth and destruction, Into solitude and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.”
― Parable of the Talents
― Parable of the Talents
“So I preached from Luke, chapter eighteen, verses one through eight: the parable of the importunate widow. It’s one I’ve always liked. A widow is so persistent in her demands for justice that she overcomes the resistance of a judge who fears neither God nor man. She wears him down. Moral: The weak can overcome the strong if the weak persist. Persisting isn’t always safe, but it’s often necessary.”
― Parable of the Sower
― Parable of the Sower
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