C Street Quotes

“By ignoring the apparent contradictions of scripture, fundamentalism ignores its questions, reducing its complexity to implicit equations. Hate equals love; obedience is freedom.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

“To him, homosexuality is only a symbol for what he learned from the Family is a greater plague: government by people, not by God.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

“Like Jerry Falwell and [Tim] LaHaye, [Pat] Robertson is a minister who advocates a Bible-based, pro-family agenda. Robertson, a faith healer, also claims to have controlled the course of a hurricane by directing it away from his headquarters.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

“It's a familiar moment to students of history: the late stage of empire, hairline fractures shooting through the foundations of society. They're like cracks in the sidewalk; by the time you see them, the damage has already been done.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

“What Tim [Kreutter] is doing is owning people, training them and owning them. Even if he wants them to do good things, the principle is corrupting. It is the seduction principle.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

“That's religion in America, under constant revision.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

“. . . private group prayers were the modern equivalent of a backroom cigar.”
― Jeff Sharlet, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy