"'framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those policies."
"There are only two surefire ways to get people to do what you want them to do. You either put on an iron glove and make them do it. Or you tell them God wants them to do it." ~ Keenan Drucker
"What people don't understand they just push away to the far corners of their minds and eventually it fades away and gets forgotten. 'Cause it's safer that way." ~ Keenan Drucker
"People don't really want change, especially not if it costs something."
"Studies have shown that convincing religious agents had to have just the right level of outlandishness. Also, the manifestation needed to have an emotional resonance in order for belief to set in. Religions use elaborate rituals to stir up people's emotions...."
All professionals have "drive. Ambition. And the cold, rational ability to compartmentalize tragedies...and carry on." ~ Dario Arapovic (Brother Ameen)
Professionals who know what they are doing can "be counted on to follow a well-thought-out methodology" ~ Dario Arapovic (Brother Ameen)
“The only reason – the only need – to believe in God is to try and explain where this all came from. . . .Where we come from. Where we’re headed. But it doesn’t work. If there was a creator, a designer who created all this, well then there had to be a creator to create the creator, right? And one to create him. And so on.”
“The problem with religion right now. It hasn’t evolved. And instead of being open and looking for ways to be relevant in today’s world, it’s gone all defensive and protective and it’s regressed into lowest-common-denominator sound bites – and fundamentalism.” ~ Father Jerome
Religion and science “Shouldn’t be in competition. The problem is with your (US) preachers – and your scientists. They’re stepping on each other’s toes. With big, heavy boots. They don’t understand that religion and science are there to serve different purposes. We need science to understand how everything on this planet and beyond works. . . .But we also need religion. Not for ridiculous counter-theories about things science can prove. We need it for something else, to fill a different kind of need. The need for meaning. It’s a basic need we have as humans. And it’s a need that’s beyond the realm of science. Your (US) scientists don’t understand that it’s a need they can’t fulfill no matter how man Hadron colliders and Hubble telescopes they build – and you (US) preachers don’t understand that their job is to help you discover a personal, inner sense of meaning and not behave like a bunch of zealots intent on converting the rest of the planet to their rigid, literalist view of how everyone should live their lives. In your (US) country and in the Muslim countries, religion has become a political movement, not a spiritual one.” ~ Father Jerome
“religion in (the US) is so focused on fighting science and these compelling atheist voices that your preachers have lost track of what religion is really about. In . . . - the Eastern Church – and in Eastern religions like Buddhism and Hinduism, religion isn’t there to offer theories or explanation. We accept that the divine is unknowable. . . .for a lot of rational people . . ., it’s become a choice. Fact or faith. Science or religion. . . .You shouldn’t have to choose.” ~ Father Jerome
The thing that “makes us human. We have minds. We make our own choices and live by them. We shape our own lives with how we behave towards others.” ~ Father Jerome
“We feel (God’s) presence every time we make a choice. It’s something that’s inside us.” ~ Father Jerome
Yelling “God is on our side” is “very effective at rallying the masses. And at winning elections. . . .” ~ Father Jerome
“you can’t reconcile religion with modern life, with all the knowledge we have, with science. . . .” ~ Grace Logan
“People don’t take kindly to having others mess around with their beliefs. . . .” ~ Larry Rydell
“Social justice is about freeing people from the clutches of witch doctors and superstition. . . .” ~ Keenan Drucker
“A soldier’s job is to put his life on the line for his country.” ~ Keenan Drucker
“We’ll elect any bumbling fool, any champion of mediocrity to the highest office in the land as long as they have God as their running mate.” ~ Keenan Drucker
“History’s shown us time and again, that mixing religion and politics only brings destruction.” ~ Larry Rydell
“Hope isn’t real by definition, is it? It’s just a state of mind. . . .” ~ Grace Logan
“God doesn’t care about what you eat or what you drink. He doesn’t care about how often you pray to him or what words you use or where you go to do that. . . .He only cares about how you behave towards one another.” ~ Father Jerome
“You don’t need anyone to tell you what to believe or who to worship. . . .You don’t need to follow any set of rituals. You don’t need to worry about an angry God not allowing you into heaven. You don’t need to march into these great temples or intolerance and be told what is God’s inerrant and infallible word, because the simple truth is that nobody really knows that. . . .All I know is that you’re not slaves and you’re not part of any grand master plan. . . .you are all God’s children. . . .You create your own destiny. And you need to accept that responsibility and put aside your egocentricity and stop looking for excuses in tired old myths. You make your own fate every single day. You need to look after each other. You need to look after the land that feeds you and gives you the air you breathe. You need to assume your duty toward all of God’s creation. And you need to accept the credit for the good and take the blame for the bad.” ~ Father Jerome
If you’re not electing Christians, tried and true, under public scrutiny and pressure, if you’re not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin. ~ Katherine Harris (Florida Secretary of State
Framing creates “a misguided belief that anyone who argued against such measures had to be, by definition, a villain trying to stop the innocent sufferers’ champion from giving them their medication, a coward shying away from a full-blown war against an aggressor, or – even worse – one too spineless to stand up to Hitler.”
If people aren’t involved in helping godly men in getting elected, then we’re going to have a nation of secular laws. That’s not what our Founding Fathers intended and that certainly isn’t what God intended.... ~ Katherine Harris (Florida Secretary of State)
"'framing' - the cunning technique of dumbing down complex, controversial issues and policies by using powerful, evocative, emotive catchphrases and images in order to prejudice and undermine any potential challenge to those policies."