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Nathan Alberson

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Your kids have already devoured Narnia and Lord of the Rings? Here are some other fantasy novels to edify, terrify, and amuse without pumping their minds full of garbage:🧵

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Nathan Alberson

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When I started looking for a wife, I wanted one who was pretty, who would be obedient and teachable, who thought I was funny. I felt embarrassed by that list, and in some ways I'm still tempted to feel embarrassed by that list. But I shouldn't. Those are good things to want.

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Watership Down | Richard Adams wrote the greatest talking animal fantasy of all time—a strange and beautiful book about rabbits on an epic quest to find a new home. Be warned, it's more violent than you might expect. See also: nada, thumbs way down for his other books!

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Just blocked some Christian Twitter friends who shared memes mocking horrific death. I get it, gallows humor, ha ha, Jesus used satire, ho ho. I hope I’ve earned my credentials as not a school marm. But Christian men don’t need to join our fatuous culture of compassionless

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If a Darwinist finds a cake in the kitchen, he can’t just assume his wife made it. It’s actually more probable that the cake made itself, over billions of years.

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You can spot a rebellious woman (read: feminist) just by the way she walks and dances and stands and goes through doorways. Her body language always says “I don’t need anybody.” It’s very unattractive.

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Five Children and It | Edith Nesbit arguably invented modern children's fantasy. This one is about, yep, five children who find a Puddlegum-ish "sand fairy." He grants wishes that go very wrong, and the results make for a charming adventure. See also: the rest of the series

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Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH | In Robert O'Brien's Newberry Award winner, a widowed field mouse named Mrs. Frisby tries to cure her son. She'll need the help of some mysteriously intelligent rats. Dark, melancholy, and gripping. See also: The Silver Crown

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The Wind in the Willows | Kenneth Grahame's story is about the genteel friends Mole, Ratty, and Badger, whose friend Mr. Toad is a reckless automobile connoisseur. It's beautifully written, funny, and very British. See also: Toad of Toad Hall, a play based on the book

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One of the most evil things Hollywood has done is sell the utterly destructive lie of an amicable divorce.

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom ... this is quite literally true because fears of other things cloud our judgment. Nothing makes me less discerning than my fear of man.

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Howl's Moving Castle | Dianna Wynne Jones wrote densely plotted fantasies for kids. In this one, a cursed hatmaker named Sophie and a pouting wizard named Howl try to outwit a witch. Expect comedy, action, and romance. See also: the rest of the series

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Kids fantasy lit review: Redwall series is great. Read the first 4-8 books. Maybe stop before it gets repetitive? Anyhow. Heros, villains, humor, heroic sacrifice. Plus lots of trifle and beetroot pie and strawberry cordial. Boy, do the mice and moles in these books eat well...

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Half-Magic | Edward Eager follows in the footsteps of Edith Nesbit with well-written stories of children having magical misadventures. In this one, five siblings find a coin that grants wishes, but only halfway. Shenanigans ensue. See also: all his other books

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*90s narrator voice* In a world of lame warrior women, nonsensical woke plots, and poisonous pagan messaging, their movie podcast was the internet’s best primer on how to engage with visual storytelling as a Christian. Listen here today. ⬇️

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Christians believe first there weren't animals, then, boom, God made them. Which takes faith. Darwinists believe the same process happened over a really long time, with no intelligence guiding it. Which takes way more faith. Pagans only believe slow, boring miracles. Pathetic.

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Winnie-the-Pooh | A. A. Milne's famous honey-loving bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Woods is still classic. Witty, fun, and full of lively characters like Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit, and Owl. Don't bother with the movies and shows, read this. See also: the rest of the series

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As a husband I try to do little things to please my wife, like remember her name.

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Young people need to understand that when they mock you for your chastity that’s just ugliness mocking beauty.

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The eyes of the Lord are in every place, yes, even your deleted browsing history.

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | L. Frank Baum's fairy tale is not much like the movie, at least in tone. Every page of this adventure fantasy brims with characters, settings, and ideas. Expect both whimsy and menace. See also: the bajillion other Oz books

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Evolution: for people who will only believe in miracles if they are slow and boring.

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it's easy to believe you shouldn't spank children, until you're faced with the counterargument, which is: children.

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A wise pastor once told me a secret. People confess 30% of things. If a guy says he looked at porn a month ago, it was yesterday. If he said he did it twice, he did ten times.”

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As a conservative Christian, I don't want my children to be weird or sheltered. I want them to be the happiest, most adjusted people in our underground bunker.

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People killed by communism: China—65 million USSR—20 million North Korea—2 million Cambodia—2 million Africa—1.7 million Afghanistan—1.5 million Vietnam—1 million Eastern Europe—1 million

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Feminism is dumb because it makes women ugly. And I dunno, maybe it's just me, but women should be beautiful.

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Many marriages would be happier if the husband just believed his wife wanted to obey him and told her how in direct language. And the wife believed her husband wanted to love her and told him how in direct language.

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I cannot overstate how awesome I thought Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade was as a kid.

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Robin Williams in Aladdin is doing William F. Buckley and Peter Lorre. No kid then or now gets those references. But comedy is always about the music, not the lyrics.

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George R. Martin is a guy who read Lord of the Rings and thought “what if this, but every character is Wormtongue?”

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"Ben-Hur" (1959) only shows us Jesus's back. As though the rest of him is too holy for film to capture. Which is about the way to do it imho.

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you will understand our culture deeply if you understand that ugliness despises beauty and aims to destroy it.

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Atheists will tell Christians they don’t need our supernatural mumbo jumbo. But actually they’re the ones who believe in magic. They believe the world came from nothing, like a rabbit coming out of a hat.

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some guy called me a snob and it made me so mad I almost dropped my monocle into my sherry

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One popular hero archetype is the loose cannon ... attached to a really solid ship. James Bond, Dirty Harry, Iron Man ... they all have a giant rebellious streak AND they all serve institutional authority. We love guys who defy the man ... and ARE the man. Interesting, no?

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Check out my Christian book podcast, almost 300 episodes of classic literature reviews.

The Bookening

3 guys—a pastor, a scholar, and their gleeful provocateur—discuss the great books. We take God and literature seriously—but the second one not overly so.

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A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up likes and retweets.

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This is my brother in law. I happen to know how he died and, believe me, it had nothing to do with the vax. I am no fan of our government's overreach, but to appropriate his death for politics when you have no clue what you're talking about is ghoulish. Lies and hysteria are not

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NEW: Robert Augustus Wall, a resident of Chicago, IL #DiedSuddenly in his home on April 30th, 2023. We are told he was forced to get the vaccine and booster shot in order to keep his job in the public school system. He was only 24 years old.

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Ugh, no, I don't listen to secular music with its super dirty lyrics. I listen to opera! I like my super dirty lyrics to be sung by fat ladies in Italian.

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They used to talk about "taking a wife" and a woman being “given” in marriage. As in, she belonged to someone, now she belongs to someone else. Bringing this language back might really help girls think soberly about whom they marry.

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To whom it may concern I am happily married.

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one way to show your wife love is to give her a kiss or something.

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Well, I have been mocked by @jk_rowling . And in a way that made fun of me, but also tried to leave me some dignity and not send a mob after me. (Or give me the dignity of a bigger audience.) That’s classy. I wish more people who thought I was dumb were like this.

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You may scoff, but my own husband’s interest in me was first awakened by watching me ricochet haphazardly off a door frame for half an hour before he came to assist me.

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Cows have best friends. They form close bonds with other cows and become stressed when they are separated from their friends. So if you’re the kind of person who insists on eating red meat, I hope you read this, and kill both cows.

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Kids fantasy lit review: In Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH, life is fragile, but precious. A widowed field mouse fights to cure her sick son and save their home from being plowed. She'll need the help of rats with a dark, sad past of their own. Good melancholy book for kids.

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Grief isn’t a series of stages. It’s a work you have to do. You have to locate all the hundreds of jagged pieces of pain and loss sticking in your soul, pluck each one out individually, and give it to God. Maybe grief is just a long-form conversation with Him.

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As I grow older, I find I have increasingly less patience for whippersnappers

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AI can write a sermon, but all it manages is a tedious, soulless lecture. In the Reformed church we can do that by ourselves, thank you very much!

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Porn is terribly wicked. It's soul-deadening, it uses up people, it's a slap in God's face. That said, I can't help but think some of the men who TREAT IT LIKE THE MOST EVIL THING IN HUMAN HISTORY are doing it more to flatter women than they are to establish righteousness.

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Some Christians believe spanking is the sole biblical answer for unruly children, but let's not be too hasty. Remember, some also get mauled by bears. 🐻

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Statistically there are more people willing to marry outside their religion than their politics. Think about that and weep.

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I think abortion has given women lots of material advantages. But then again why does anybody commit murder?

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The funniest thing about the guys who argue for a man having two or more wives is the ongoing fact of their zero wives.

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I’m always happy to examine my own biases. I mean, they’re great biases, why wouldn’t I be?

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If you want to get rid of weird perverse BDSM stuff you have to bring back real headship and submission in marriage. If you try to eradicate obedience, it will come back in bad, bizarro ways.

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If anyone said anything nice and encouraging and I missed it in the flood of other things, you have my thanks.

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Evil is boring. If you’ve spent time with truly degenerate people, they repeat the same things, the things they repeat are trite, and they rehearse them back and forth to each other, into oblivion.

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If Christianity is being rejected it’s because it hid from verses like these and espoused a fake narrow version of what a fake Jesus said.

Kassandra ♎️♋️♓️

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@CEWall3 @nathanalberson P.S. This is why Christianity is largely being rejected— men like yourselves cherry-picking verses that serve them best. Utterly misogynistic religion when it moves away from the very LIMITED, but profound teachings of Jesus.

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Feminism is a purely destructive force. It wants your soul and the souls of your children.

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Sometimes I really want to enjoy a movie or TV show and not think about whether it's biblical? Um, then, go be not a Christian? God calls us to discernment in every part of our lives.

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Virginity is a jewel that adorns even the most homely girl. It’s funny to watch people run around trying to dump their diamonds into the gutter as quick as they possibly can.

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The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian | Lloyd Alexander wrote this witty adventure about a young fiddler who finds himself involved with a circus troupe, a runaway princess, an assassination plot, and an enchanted violin. See also: The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha

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I don't know how to do Twitter. I guess I'll troll everyone on all sides and hope everyone on all sides finds it wise, and original, and charming.

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Feminist logic: "hmm, Nathan's wife seems happy being Nathan’s wife, even though she believes wives should obey their husbands. Actually a lot of women in Nathan's circle are like that… and women in other circles ... ERGO... THEY'RE ALL BRAINWASHED!"

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Man, the lack of empathy folks have for people dying a horrific death (whoever they were and whatever the reason) makes me want to see our civilization burn to cinders.

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Your local library may have a bad book selection and sneeringly liberal librarians but as a intersection for innocent toddlers and homeless derelicts it really can’t be beat.

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Christian 1: I use my freedom in Christ to watch Disney! Christian 2: Ugh, no woke trash for me! Christian 3: Yeah, too bad it’s not like the good old days when Disney was about A MERMAID IN A SEASHELL BIKINI DISOBEYING HER FATHER! Always a reason you're the righteous one.

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Don't look for leaders who are sinless. Look for leaders who are accountable.

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Character is contagious. You hang out with somebody enough, there’s a good chance you’re gonna catch their character. Act accordingly.

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Beware of anyone who has suddenly discovered something about raising children that invalidates what everyone always knew throughout all of human history. Yes, this is a subtweet. 😐

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In a comment that reminds me of the conversations swirling around Christian nationalism, George Orwell pointed out that Rudyard Kipling dared to imagine things from the point of view of the conquering force, the civilization builders. Many storytellers cast their heroes as the

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Lots of men are reactive in their virtue. Oh, the wife is sad, the kid is disobedient, I will react to fix this. Which is a normal part of life. But many men have no sense of proactive virtue (I will do things of my own volition to create a happy wife, an obedient kid).

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Abortion Doctor: "The bad news is we accidentally punctured your uterine wall. The good news is we managed to stab your baby to death."

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The children were cruel to be me because I was different. But fantasy novels allowed me to escape into a world where the children were cruel to me because I read fantasy novels.

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The Power of Positive thinking didn’t work for me. But I knew it wouldn’t from the start.

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I read somewhere that J. K. Rowling came up with the idea from the Dementors after a bout with depression. I wonder if she was depressed she was about to steal the Ringwraiths from Lord of the Rings.

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The occult in America grew out of the failure of the Second Great Awakening. It riled people up to great spiritual heights and then gave them no church to anchor them. Kinda like riling kids up with sex and giving them no marriage to anchor them. Satan gets in.

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A godly older pastor once told me, “Be careful who you put time into. There should be people that you don’t.”

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Beauty on a bitter woman is perfume on a corpse.

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I got in trouble on this site for saying I wanted (and had) a wife who was teachable. So all you guys with stubborn, unteachable wives, how you likin that?

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@dinahaddie Already have a woman.

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I keep seeing people say America is turning into a Banana Republic, but I feel like if we’re anything it’s a Spencer’s Gifts. 😢

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We look down our noses at the law of a couple hundred years ago which (supposedly) looked the other way if a man beat his wife. Meanwhile our law looks on and applauds as a man murders his unborn or mutilates his born.

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There’s nothing quite like an evening of bowling to make you realize you suck at bowling

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A good sequel is like an experiment, there has to be a control group (Indiana Jones, globetrotting, artifact, Nazis), and a variable (his Dad joins him!). The fun is watching the variable affect the control.

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To be a feminist is to look at life and beauty and see a cage.

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🧵Things the Apostle Paul told Titus were ESSENTIAL TO TEACH EVERY YOUNG MAN: 1. Be self controlled.

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Unless you’ve met every worker at Hershey, all candy comes, at some point, from strangers.

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People keep saying That Hideous Strength is the most prophetic book of the twentieth century, but I have yet to see a bear and an elephant maul all the bad guys to death.

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I doubt J. R. R. Tolkien would have loved the movies of his books, but I’ll tell you what really would have made him spin in his grave. Some sort of winch cable wrapped around his corpse.

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Since the NPCs discovered this one for whatever reason, let me just say to the gals: look for a man who is handsome to you and obedient to his authorities, and teachable. If you narrowed it down to that, you could do well.

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When I started looking for a wife, I wanted one who was pretty, who would be obedient and teachable, who thought I was funny. I felt embarrassed by that list, and in some ways I'm still tempted to feel embarrassed by that list. But I shouldn't. Those are good things to want.

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I get the appeal of many pagan tropes, but the whole "death is what makes life valuable" thing just royally sucks. I really, really, really like being alive, imho. Death is my enemy.

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20 million people died in communist Russia but let's try that again

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The Bible says fools feed on folly. So beware every time you give yourself to even a little foolishness. You’re a step away from developing an appetite.

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There’s no instrument of torture as casually cruel as the human tongue.

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Women abuse, child abuse, slavery ... anywhere Christianity and Christians redeemed something, we’re the ones who get blamed for perpetuating it.

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The thing we all sense about Tom Cruise is that he’s a fabrication. We may never really know what’s at the center. Except a need to perform, to succeed. Maybe in some ways he's just more honest about it than most celebrities.

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One of life's hard lessons is that the guy who freed you from The Matrix may not be the same guy who can teach you how to live free in Zion.

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