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“These days, projecting blame is almost an art form.”

“There was a mindless rigidity about some Christian Americans— about the ones who did the most harm. They were so certain that they were right that, like medieval inquisitors, they would kill you, even tortured, to save your soul.”

“The things that we had created and loved had already been destroyed. This time, the fires only cleansed.”

“Human decency is a sin here.”

“We walk the highways and scrounge and scavenge and ask for work, and all of that reminds people that what’s happened to us can happen to them. They don’t like to think about stuff like that, so they get mad at us. They make the cops arrest us or run us out of town. They call us names and wish somebody would do something to make us disappear. And now somebody is doing just that!”

Indentured to the Church of Christian America?!? 😳 We’re screwed.

“They just didn’t know how to use the powerful weapons they possessed.”