Peter Manseau Quotes

#1. The American experiment was frequently shaped by a rejection of old ways and openness to the new. In religious terms, this rejection created over time a nation unique in its ability to absorb and be built by those of different beliefs; people who believed there were many gods, or none at all.

Peter Manseau

#2. ...Traduttore, traditore.

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#3. I had been a religion major, with a focus on scriptural languages, and upon receiving my degree, felt qualified to do
nothing.

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#4. A boy with a story must write.

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#5. THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus's foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.

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#6. The goyim are a curious people," Malpesh once said to me, before he had discovered who and what I was. "Not curious that they want to know things," he clarified, "curious that they don't.

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#7. It's perhaps significant that God declares His completed Creation "very good" and that Adam is an afterthought, his goodness unspecified.

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#8. No other foreskin could have caused such trouble.

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#9. The always popular notion that the United States is in "moral decline" (a phrase favored in the pulpits and the press of both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) rests on the assumption that Americans used to be far more religious and should strive to return to their former fidelity.

Peter Manseau