“It strikes me often while I am in Iran that were Christian evangelicals to take a tour of Iran today, they might find it the model for an ideal society they seek in America. Replace Allah with God, Mohammad with Jesus, keep the same public and private notions of chastity, sin, salvation, and God's will, and a Christian Republic is born.” MightTodayChristianAmericaJesusBornSinModelsIdealsSalvationNotionStrikesGods WillIranRepublicChastityIdeal Society Book:The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran Source: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
“The reinvention of American culture as purely the self catapulted Las Vegas to prominence. The city took sin and made it choice -- a sometimes ambiguous choice, but choice nonetheless. Combined with a visionary approach to experience that melded Hollywood and Americans' taste for comfort and self-deception, Las Vegas grew into the last American frontier city, as foreign at times as Prague but as quintessential as Peoria. In Las Vegas, you can choose your fantasy; in the rest of America, you don't always get to pick.” MadeSelfSometimesLastsAmericaChoicesCultureSinCitiesFantasyGrewComfortTasteApproachPicksHollywoodMade ItDeceptionFrontiersAmerican CultureVegasLas VegasVisionariesSelf DeceptionAmbiguousReinventionQuintessentialProminencePraguePeoria Author:Hal Rothman
“America was the worst place in the world in which to fail, fall sick, get old or die, because then your problems had crystallised into the unforgivable sin. Failure.” WorldProblemAmericaDiesFallSinUnited StatesFailingWorstSickPlaces In The WorldUnforgivableUnforgivable Sin Book:The Rendezvous Source: The Rendezvous
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.” HomeAmericaIndividualSinRaceFamilyHorrorDestructionSlaveryInstinctShelterSavagesRelentlessCardinalsRace In America Author:Fannie Barrier Williams