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A preponderance of books that are useless, insipid, cretinous, or wicked is neither new nor any particular cause for alarm or despair — fire yet exists.

Trust no man who puts his faith in democracy.

It is the duty of older women in the churches to facilitate marriages for the younger women, for how can they teach the younger women to submit to husbands they do not have?

καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν,
ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφίεμεν τοῖς ὀφειλέταις ἡμῶν·

et dimitte nobis debita nostra sicut
et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris.

und vergib uns unsere Schuld,
wie auch wir vergeben unsern Schuldigern.

and forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.

and forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Our present economy works for the (vanishingly) few — in fact, it works so well for them that the 0.01% are purchasing tracts of land that would have made ancient kings envious —, but it does not work for the many, who — every day — sink further and further into debt and despair.

We must make fundamental changes.

Baptists do not hold to ‘credo’ Baptism — do not let them claim that rhetorical ground uncontested; they hold to exclamo Baptism.

There is a one-word difference between the Grift ‘Right’ and the actual Right:

* There is no price for which the Right would sell you out.

* There is no price for which the Grift Right wouldn’t sell you out.

There exists not a single trillionaire — and few enough with hundreds of billions — whom I would want to tax, because taxation is not a proper solution to the existence of evil men.

The complexity of a (good) explanation is — necessarily — inversely correlated with the intelligence or the knowledge of the target audience.

Properly defined, there are political solutions to the problems we face.