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I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.
- Jay Parini
#Death
#Great
#Life
#Story
#Value
American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
- Jay Parini
#American
#Back
#Nervous
#Political
Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.
- Jay Parini
#Beginning
#Late
#Places
#Revelation
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.
- Jay Parini
#Act
#Country
#Feel
#Government
#People
Although the story of George and Lennie in 'Of Mice and Men' ends on a depressing note, there is a peculiar aura of human dignity in it, a hint of redemption.
- Jay Parini
#Aura
#Dignity
#Human Dignity
#Human
#Men
We should never forget that Americans continue to advocate for individual liberty, equality and self-governance. We often step in when it's necessary to help countries in need. But our history needs no whitewashing. To attempt this does us a terrible disservice.
- Jay Parini
#Equality
#History
#Never Forget
#Step
'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.
- Jay Parini
#Bag
#Big
#Bones
#High
#Lists
To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.
- Jay Parini
#Imagination
#Position
#Right
#Who
#Women
The United States is truly remarkable, a nation founded on a set of Enlightenment ideals so beautifully expressed by the Declaration of Independence and codified in the U.S. Constitution. We should feel good about our ideals, even when we don't quite manage to live up to them.
- Jay Parini
#Feel Good
#Good
#Independence
#Live
#Up
One thing a narcissist doesn't like is to look in a mirror that is in any way genuinely reflective of what's on the other side of it.
- Jay Parini
#Look
#Mirror
#One Thing
#Side
#Way
The stories about the life and teachings of Jesus were mainly told in Greek, the original language of the gospels.
- Jay Parini
#About
#Jesus
#Language
#Life
#Original
I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.
- Jay Parini
#Death
#Friendship
#Know
#Living
#Man
I've been teaching full-time for 41 years at small colleges, and I can't imagine what it would mean for me or my colleagues to be armed with handguns or rifles instead of books and a thorough knowledge of our chosen disciplines.
- Jay Parini
#Colleagues
#Imagine
#Knowledge
#Me
#Mean
Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.
- Jay Parini
#Back
#Bible
#Effort
#Push
#True
A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.
- Jay Parini
#Argument
#God
#Same
#View
#Worship
It's not unusual for socio-economic, even racial or ethnic, groups to cluster.
- Jay Parini
#Ethnic
#Even
#Socio-Economic
#Unusual
For no good reason, George W. Bush and the best and brightest he could muster, including the likes of Paul Bremer and Paul Wolfowitz, decided it made sense to attack Iraq.
- Jay Parini
#Attack
#Best
#Good
#Reason
#Sense
I say that a myth is a story which has particular energy, mythic resonance. I always say that a myth is a tear in the fabric of reality through which all of this spiritual energy pours.
- Jay Parini
#Always
#Energy
#Reality
#Say
#Spiritual
Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.
- Jay Parini
#Followers
#History
#Person
#Untold
#Who
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.
- Jay Parini
#Colors
#Freedom
#Liberty
#Life
#Religion
Good and productive labor is valuable, and it doesn't mean you have to have a fancy job description. You don't have to become rich. You can be ordinary. Happiness lies there. Do good work, create good work for others.
- Jay Parini
#Good Work
#Good
#Happiness
#Rich
#Work
Christmas is, for those who wish to follow the way of Jesus, an invitation to accept into our comfortable and safe lives those who come to us from far away, who seem ragged, marginal, in transition.
- Jay Parini
#Accept
#Christmas
#Follow
#Safe
#Way
Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.
- Jay Parini
#Christmas
#Help
#Ignore
#Legends
#Power
The fact is, we need markers in life, whether we subscribe to a religion or not. And the major holidays, such as Christmas, serve to remind us of the turning world.
- Jay Parini
#Christmas
#Life
#Need
#Religion
#World
The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the authors of Matthew and Luke. Mark and John seem never to have heard of the manger in Bethlehem, the Massacre of the Innocents, the hovering star, the three wise men, and so forth.
- Jay Parini
#Christmas
#Men
#Three
#Wise Men
#Wise
Each year in early spring, during the season of Lent, which begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes on Easter, a plenitude of books, magazine articles, and television shows about Jesus appear.
- Jay Parini
#Easter
#Magazine
#Spring
#Television
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