More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
Interesting that they fear Edward Jay Smith’s supposed incompetence more than they fear Jarret’s obvious tyranny.
Once he’s made everyone who isn’t like him sound evil, then he can blame them for problems he knows they didn’t cause. That’s easier than trying to fix the problems.”
More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease.
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?
Was that it? The woman could be silent or she could be silenced?
Things weren’t always this way. They don’t have to go on being this way. What we have broken we can mend.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
President Jarret and his followers in Christian America believed that one of the things that had gone wrong with the country was the intrusion of women into “men’s business.” I’ve seen recordings of him saying this and large audiences of both men and women cheering and applauding wildly.
Christian America was, at first, much more a refuge for the ignorant and the intolerant than it should have been. Even people who would never beat or burn another person could treat suddenly orphaned or abducted children with cold, self-righteous cruelty.
Stupid faith was good. Thinking and questioning were bad.
The religious poor who are ignorant, frightened, and desperate to improve their situations are glad to see a “man of God” in the White House. And that’s what he is to them: a man of God.
Your desires, Whether or not you achieve them Will determine who you become.
And because we cannot admit That we’ve embraced and defended An obvious lie. Thus, without thought, Without intent, We make Mere echoes Of ourselves
Adulthood is both sweet and sad. It terrifies. It empowers. We are men and women now.
he says it’s true—true and sad and wrong, and in the end, irrelevant. He says Jarret’s teachings were right even if the man himself did wrong.
