"Where is the graveyard of dead gods? What lingering mourner waters their mounds?" So begins H. L. Menkin's 1922 memorial service for all the dead gods of history. This is a fine piece to suggest to theist friends: they may realize that their faith, too, will someday be extinct, and is not the truth of all time they think it is. Or try "John and Mary Pay a Visit" for a more direct means to offer theists a reflection of their claims.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."
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