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Regardless of whether or not the United States was ever, as some insist, a “Christian nation,”
I don't care for this bullshit equivocal language. If the author isn't willing to acknowledge the plain reality that the U.S. was not nor was ever intended to be a Christian nation then how is he going to be able to discuss this topic credibly?
“Vengeance is the cheapest of motivations, it’s a tin star on a shabby coat. I want answers is all that I want.”
― World of Trouble
― World of Trouble
“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
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“Almost always, things are exactly as they appear. People are continually looking at the painful or boring parts of life with the half-hidden expectation that there is more going on beneath the surface, some deeper meaning that will eventually be unveiled; we’re waiting for the saving grace, the shocking reveal. But almost always things just are what they are, almost always there’s no glittering ore hidden under the dirt. A”
― World of Trouble
― World of Trouble
“Kershaw had long ago realised, apparently, that dealing with Brits was tricky. You had to listen to what a Brit was saying -- which was invariably that he thought XYZ was a terrific idea and he hoped it went very well for you -- while at the same time paying heed to the greasy, nauseous suspicion you had that, although every word and phrase indicated approval, somehow the sum of the whole was that you'd have to be a mental pygmy to come up with this plan and a complete fucking idiot to pursue it.”
― Tigerman
― Tigerman
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Our thoughts on a book, on a screen… Gnomon is a mind-bender. A mind blower! So much that it’s hard to know where to begin discussing it. But I love ...more
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