There have been Deists like Thomas Jefferson who thought of God as a Holy Being who wound a clock, then stood apart and let it tick away without affecting it again.

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Pursuing these visions, he gives galvanizing speeches, after which his "odor was hideous, like a hellish whiff of skunk and offal. She realised for the first time that the king of Prussia’s left hand was effeminately posed on his hip, just as her uncle’s often was. This is an apolitical forum for discussions on the Axis nations and related topics hosted by the Axis History Factbook in cooperation with Christian Ankerstjerne’s Panzerworld and Christoph Awender's WW2 day by day. But that TV movie was supposed to be a docu-drama -- a dramatization of a true story, not a work of fiction based on a true story.

And I've visited book groups where the members were puzzled by much of the content of a particular novel without being put off by their quandaries.

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Honestly, I probably wouldn't have read this if it weren't written by Ron Hansen, but I did and am glad for it. Purchased new and opened only for author to sign, no inscriptions, just the author's name directly on the title page. A textured picture of Hitler's histrionic personality and his insane mission for glory, presaging the genocide to come in the cold-blooded obliteration of one young woman. Now an educated woman in her twenties, Paula is living in exile in Austria, struggling to come to grips with the atrocities her uncle committed.RH:I have a standard, cherrywood desk against the south wall of a nine-by-twelve room, a matching desk with overhead bookcases and a hutch for my iMac computer against the north wall, and a Random House dictionary on a lectern between them at my left hand. One of the proposed plans for Germany’s national Holocaust Memorial includes a wall of a million books–one for every six dead Jews. The scene continues, and it is intentionally shocking and unsavory, just as it must have been to Geli.