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To: newheart

I heard Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities) say years ago that we lost this country when the Ten Commandments were removed from the Town Square. Then the rules were made by man and there was no longer a reminder that there were things greater than man.


46 posted on 02/09/2013 1:54:23 PM PST by griswold3 (Big Government does not tolerate rivals.)
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To: griswold3
I heard Tom Wolfe (Bonfire of the Vanities) say years ago that we lost this country when the Ten Commandments were removed from the Town Square. Then the rules were made by man and there was no longer a reminder that there were things greater than man.

As he often does, Wolfe nails it. He doesn't like to be called a conservative, but it is hard not to see that in much of his work.

55 posted on 02/11/2013 7:23:52 PM PST by newheart (The greatest trick the left ever pulled was convincing the world it was not a religion.)
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