Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. Butler, quote from Parable of the TalentsīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, As for the beatings, the tarring and feathering, and the destruction of “heathen houses of devil-worship,” he has a simple answer: “Join us! Our doors are open to every nationality, every race! Leave your sinful past behind, and become one of us. Jarret condemns the burnings, but does so in such mild language that his people are free to hear what they want to hear.
Jarret’s people have been known to beat or drive out Unitarians, for goodness’ sake. And “cultist” is a great catchall term for anyone who fits into no other large category, and yet doesn’t quite match Jarret’s version of Christianity. Well-to-do eccentrics often have no protectors or much that’s worth stealing. A witch may also be an atheist, a “cultist,” or a well-to-do eccentric. Witches! In 2032! A witch, in their view, tends to be a Moslem, a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist, or, in some parts of the country, a Mormon, a Jehovah’s Witness, or even a Catholic. Jarret supporters have been known, now and then, to form mobs and burn people at the stake for being witches. But these days when more than half the people in the country can’t read at all, history is just one more vast unknown to them. There was never such a time in this country.
He wants to take us all back to some magical time when everyone believed in the same God, worshipped him in the same way, and understood that their safety in the universe depended on completing the same religious rituals and stomping anyone who was different. The current state of the country does not suit him. Jarret insists on being a throwback to some earlier, “simpler” time. So now we have another group that uses crosses and slaughters people. There were crosses all over the place during the Inquisition and before that, during the Crusades. Did the Ku Klux Klan wear crosses-as well as burn them? The Nazis wore the swastika, which is a kind of cross, but I don’t think they wore it on their chests. It sounds like the sort of thing his people might do-a revival of something nasty out of the past. I couldn’t help wondering, though, whether these people, with their crosses, had some connection with my current least favorite presidential candidate, Texas Senator Andrew Steele Jarret. He did the same for her, so I won’t be able to ask her anything more until she wakes up later this morning. Bankole had given him something to help him sleep.
I didn’t think of what it might be until after I had let Aubrey go back to the clinic to bed down next to her child. Born place: in Martinez, California, The United States
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