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The protagonists in this ethnography include both conversion candidates and state conversion agents. Most of the candidates are young, secular Israeli women from an FSU background who must navigate the institutional processes of state
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“In the worship discussions it will therefore be important for us to convince the leadership that they are seeking unity when they are really seeking uniformity. Some of our most significant victories in the last few centuries have been when churches abandon the search for unity (a difficult and elusive search) in favor of a policy of uniformity. Unity can only emerge from the Enemy working in the hearts of individuals. A leadership can impose uniformity. Unity has, at its core, a common conviction and celebrates differences in expression. Uniformity emphasizes appearance—as long as we all meet together and sing the same songs, we must be unified. Uniformity says that our various beliefs about the Enemy can differ or even be nonexistent as long as we do not question the decisions”
― The Wormwood Archive
― The Wormwood Archive
“As Ellena Mayer talked about how everyone had mistreated her and discriminated against her for being a woman and a talented genetic designer, I classed her as the type of woman who doesn’t understand everyone who is unusually brilliant is “discriminated against” for the simple fact of being different from the common herd, and therefore both resented, and suspicious.”
― No Man's Land: Volume 3
― No Man's Land: Volume 3
“And this is one of the most interesting things about pharmakeia. People claim to be enlightened by the experiences, but when you ask them what they learned, you get saccharine clichés about the oneness of everything and how we just need to love everyone. Not exactly enlightening.”
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
― The Return of the Dragon : The Shocking Way Drugs and Religion Shape People and Societies
“The great success of our strategy can be seen in Daniel Southerland’s sincere conviction that members who object to a Performance Driven transition are just like Sanballat. They are enemies of the Enemy, and should be driven from the community. To our great advantage many of these are former leaders, or elderly servants of the Enemy who might never find another church to which they can belong and are thus effectively sidelined from the battle.”
― The Wormwood Archive
― The Wormwood Archive
“When I was single I learned over dinner, careful not to drip tomato sauce upon discussions about the sprinkling of blood on the Temple altar.”
― If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
― If All the Seas Were Ink: A Memoir
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