Mrs Dalloway
bannedbookstruth.bsky.social
Mrs Dalloway
@bannedbookstruth.bsky.social
Quotations from books we may no longer be permitted to read.

As if anyone reads anything longer than 248 characters.
He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.

But the Gospels actually taught this:

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes." Vonnegut /S5
January 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod storytelling in the New Testament.
January 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
He supposed that the intent of the Gospels was to teach people, among other things, to be merciful, even to the lowest of the low.

But the Gospels actually taught this:

Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn’t well connected. So it goes." Vonnegut/S5
January 25, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"And when memory failed and written records were falsified—when that happened, the claim of the Party to have improved the conditions of human life had got to be accepted, because there did not exist, and never again could exist, any standard against which it could be tested." Orwell, 1984
January 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM