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"Miracles focused gospel teaches us to be selfish and egocentric."

"Nothing evokes the prurient like puritanism."

"All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth."

"Miss Austen's novels - seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer - is marriageableness."

"Stephenie Meyer: Her vampires are sparkly, which I think we can all agree is wrong."

"There is more evil than good when we preach the miracle centered gospel instead if the kingdom gospel."

"Don't criticize what you can't understand."

"A "racist" thinks themselves better than other races. An "elitist" thinks they are better than everyone."

"Torturing innocents, murdering civilians and destroying public property; they are all the gifts we have been given by religion."

"If the self-help books worked, it would be a shrinking industry not a growing one."
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"Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell."

"Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp."

"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."

"The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already."

"I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way."

"Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising."
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