The truth never harms, but sets one free.
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Garry Wills successfully attempts to highlight the outstanding abuses of authority and power within the Vatican and curia.  If only he would have access to the detailed documents that remain buried in the vaults of the Vatican archives!  As it is, he does a very good job at disecting the deceits.  His reference to John Ford, S.J., and the collusion he had with Octaviani on the contraception battle was very revealing, especially since I had John Ford for my professor in moral theology at the time at Catholic University.  According to my theological training from this pontifical university, Wills is accurately and painfully right on the mark.  My appreciation for honesty and openess was served in reading this book.  And the real saintly hero of our time remains John XXIII, the farmer who called for Vatican II  against all odds to rid the Church of such deceits.  The grossest deceit of all is how his predecessors have tried to bury the tenets of Vatican II.  But the Spirit will win out.
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Immaculee takes great care to present her recollection of her story to the most accurate degree. I greatly appreciated this honesty because in cases of grave misfortune, nothing is gained by sugar-coating the truth of the matter. In Rwanda, families were torn apart, children were chopped to pieces, and friends turned against their closest non-blood family members. Immaculee faced a horrific time as her home was destroyed and her family murdered in cold blood. Nothing about this historical occurrence is fiction and shouldn't be treated as such. Some may say that this blunt presentation of the facts is gruesome or inappropriate but I believe presenting it any other way is just an injustice to those individuals who lost their lives in the Rwandan Genocide. Everybody needs to be aware of the horrific acts occurring around the world because it is impossible to live in a disconnected timeline; everything is connected and that fact cannot be ignored.

Beyond the interesting nature of a first-hand, factual delivery of a situation that is little known by the general population, this book is beneficial to read because it presents an alternate outcome for those people so deeply angered by injustice. Immaculee probably wouldn't have been thought ill of if she took revenge upon the people who killed her family. Still, I believe so much more is thought of her because of her ability to move past that and enter a state of forgiveness that many people may have forgotten is an option. Her spirituality, or just her strength, can be applied to countless situations and I believe her method of forgiveness would be very useful to dispel the anger that seems to permeate the air of society today.
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Every fair-minded Independent needs to read this book. It provides the real story, one that todays media is not providing.
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With an open mind and a knowledge of history, this book is easily understood. Step outside your invisible culture-created box consisting of the lies you have been spoon-fed your entire life and you will be able to gain a clear vision of reality. This book is meant for people who are willing to learn and hear the truth. If culture is more important to you than truth, then you will not understand this book. Read this book to learn the principles of liberty and how democracy combats it.
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It never hurts to be reminded that we are not always just a  product of our pasts, but by acknowledging  and then erasing the shame of  painful memories and horrific childhood experiences, we can be free of the "never" way our life story is being written.
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The truth is painful but needs to be heard and understood. This does both in a healthy way.
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Classics like this endure because their truths are so close to the bone that they can speak to every generation, regardless of transitory cultural trappings. Provided, of course, that they enjoy translations like this one, which speaks directly to our times without sacrificing context. You can open it anywhere and be enlightened by what you find there, without ever suspecting you've been seduced by a, gasp, classic.
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Tells the truth, regardless of how hard it is to accept, i.e. the corruption in our media and its beholding to the left.
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This book is filled with simple but profound truth that we all need to think on so that we can be set free from the rat race system that most of us dwell in. Well worth your time.
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There are only a few real axioms in life, and I would say that among them is the fact that we will never know the full and unabridged truth about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
There are those who know the truth and they are those in power, and they would like to stay there.  In a free democracy where we pride ourselves on electing our own officials, meaning ideally that 'they' are in fact 'us,' they instead act as though truth was their own personal property, and the rest of us are doomed to either err or trespass.  Gerald Posner has written a persuasive brief for the prosecution, but it is only truly convincing to those who take his sources at face value and do not follow up his efforts.  Thirty years after the assassination, Gerald Posner relived the unbridled media endorsements of the Warren Report.  The media lined up to sing praises for a book some had not read, and some before the book was even finished (EX: Stephen Ambrose wrote comments on dust jacket of the first edition of the book, which were conveniently removed after it was shown that the book was not finished when he wrote his glowing endorsement).
But the proof is in the pudding (or the lack thereof).  When Posner was asked to produce materials for the Assassination Records Review Board in the mid-1990s he declined, as did a number of pro-solution individuals who made quite a name promoting their own ideas without the realities of detailed substantiation.  This was kind of a 'put up or shut up' program where the Board had the power to send prosecute people who were dishonest with them.  I asked Gerald myself if he would publically produce the index he wrote for the twenty-six volumes of the Warren Commission evidence, as some doubt that he could have read and indexed all that information the time he claimed.  He refused.  I asked him to publicly produce any part of the tape recordings of witnesses he claims he both interviewed and tape recorded (whereby he asserts that credible witnesses like James Tague changed their story in a way that serves the pro-solution concept), when those witnesses state that they never spoke to Posner at all!  If this were a legitimate attempt to offer a credibile solution to the question of the assassination, Posner would cooperate with government inquiries, offer some form of credibile evidence as to his personal work, and answer the critics in an honest and open manner.  To date, he has not.
In 1997 I personally offered Gerald $10,000 to debate me publicly, with the money to be donated to a cause of his choice, which he declined.
The points raised about Posner's character and credibility stand even today.  Having spoke to several of the witnesses who claim shoddy and distorted work by Posner and to the Posners themselves, I can only say that this case is far from closed.
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The truth always hurts.  Glenn Beck has always had to deal with the criticism that historically prophets have endured. This is a simple presentation of the truth.it is well researched and written simply to inform.
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This book explores the darker sides of humanity and all that lies beneath the surface and the lengths some people will go to conceal the truth, or to put it another way, the lengths people go not to reveal their true selves and the collateral damage it causes, or in this case, the colossal damage it causes decades later.  "The truth shall set you free" ~ even when you think it's impossible this book shows how in the face of all odds that the truth in the end does set you free.
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A new edition to the anti-intellectual diet, guaranteed 100% fact free.
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Twain provides the reader with an original account of what lying is. He manages to combine intellectual honesty with original thought. It would be a wise thing to read this and no, I'm not lying.
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Finally someone has the guts to tell the truth about a problem that will remain a problem while political correctness exists.
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Red--that is, Bush--America has no more passionate spokesperson than Sean Hannity.  He speaks for the values that still mean something to most of this country--faith, family, and freedom.  He sees clearly through the relativistic mish-mash of modern times and pulls no punches.  No, his ideas aren't extraordinarily complex; Hannity is no philosopher.  But that's the point.  Conservatism, as understood by regular people, is a simple thing, recognizing the simple truths of reality and existence--only to seem them obscured and distorted and even destroyed by the Left and, sometimes, too, by Republicans.
The book reads easily and is part chronicle of his encounters with liberals, part exposition of his beliefs.  It covers the gamut of today's issues:  immigration, education, the environment, national defense, taxes, the media.  He paints an accurate picture of the American left as mostly hypocritical, morally blind "Kool-Aid drinkers," whose ideas are dangerous and threatening to all that the country has held dear for over two hundred years.  He tenaciously defends what he believes and does not fear admitting his faith in God and the role that his Christian beliefs play in his life.  "Let Freedom Ring" is an admirable defense of conservative values and moral clarity.  It will no doubt make some people uncomfortable and offend many others--but that's because it rings with such truth.
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M.S. King is an essential author for everyone who wants to know the TRUTH about what is going on in the world. He unmasks the lies and distortions promulgated by the wholly controlled Media be it: Television, Hollywood Movies, Mainline Book Publishers, or the Newspapers and Magazine Industry. The Truth will set us free and all who want to know the Truth will buy and read all the writings of M S King. I recommend that all Truth Seekers buy the writings of M S King and support his work in refuting the lies we are be told by the controlled Media. I have bought and read all of his books so far  and recommend him with highest praise!
May the Truth set us free from the lies and distortions fed to us daily!
Sincerely,  Katherine Gerak