We of alien looks or words must stick together.
C.J. SansomTags: society community immigrants xenophobia outsiders exclusion foreigners
In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing.
C.J. SansomTags: nationalism xenophobia
If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?
C.J. SansomHave you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.
C.J. SansomTags: religion destruction cruelty holocaust apocalypse fundamentalism armageddon orthodoxy radicalism mania book-of-revelation
Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."
[From the author's concluding Historical Note]
Tags: religion destruction cruelty holocaust apocalypse fundamentalism armageddon orthodoxy radicalism mania book-of-revelation
Like all lawyers, I was delighted by gratitude. It happened so rarely.
C.J. SansomTags: gratitude lawyers attorneys thanks
It seems a universal rule in this world that people will always look for victims and scapegoats, does it not? Especially at times of difficulty and tension.
C.J. Sansom...you should not insult yourself so, sir. Is there not enough suffering in the world?
C.J. SansomTags: feelin-sentimental
You untangle a knot with slow teasing, not sharp pulling, and believe me we have here a knot such as I have never seen. But I will unpick it. I will.
C.J. SansomThe echoes of childhood torments have great power, even when not brought to mind in such an inexplicable and horrifying way.
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