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”How could it happen? I don’t know anybody who voted for Nixon!” A similarly refined insulation from reality is evident in the attitudes toward religion assumed by many who bear responsibility for informing the national consciousness.
— Mar 25, 2019 03:01PM
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Samantha
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Media attention is likely to skew our perception of the continuing strength of the mainline, since the media assume that “news” is the new and , frequently, bizarre.
— Mar 25, 2019 02:53PM
Samantha
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The historic enemies of democratic disorderliness, such as Hitler and Stalin, make their most determined assaults not against religious belief as such but against the institutions of religion.
— Mar 25, 2019 02:18PM
Samantha
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Compromise and forgiveness arise from the acknowledgement that we are imperfect creatures in an imperfect world. Democracy is the product not of a vision of perfection but of the knowledge of imperfection.
— Mar 25, 2019 02:05PM
Samantha
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Democracy by nature puts a premium on mediocrity.
— Mar 13, 2019 06:36PM
Samantha
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American founders....assumed that other institutions, such as religion, would be taking care of the value-generating and value-transmitting needs of society.
— Oct 08, 2018 04:28AM
Samantha
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Today perfectly respectable, indeed distinguished, persons propose in public the doing of what earlier was thought unthinkable.
— Sep 30, 2018 05:51AM
Samantha
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The legal precedents set in order to remedy racial injustice, however, are now exploited by every person or group in order to establish their claim of immunity from prevailing moral sentiment.
— Sep 29, 2018 04:01PM
Samantha
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It is a conflict of moralities in which one moral system calls itself secular and insists that the other do likewise as the price of admission to the public arena. That insistence is in fact a demand that the other side capitulate.
— Apr 29, 2018 04:50PM
Samantha
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. ~ John Adams
— Apr 05, 2018 02:16PM
Samantha
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It is false consciousness to think that even the most intensive empathy can create a solidarity of identity and experience.
— Apr 05, 2018 05:58AM
