The Old Religion

Author: David Mamet

Release: January 1, 1997

Publisher: Free Pr

Genre: Literature, Mystery

ISBN-10: 0684841193
ISBN-13: 978-0684841199

Synopsis: “A historical narrative tells the story of Jewish factory owner Leo Frank, who in 1914 was wrongfully accused and convicted of raping a white Southern girl and eventually lynched by an angry mob.”

Declassified by Agent Palmer: The Old Religion is important, but heavy, reading

Quotes and Lines

“What is religion?”

Happy to be possessed of a liberality sufficient to allow contemplation of the free-spirited art of philosophy.

“But nothing will be defended as vehemently as a lie, and there’s the truth of patriotism.

Nothing, he thought, will be defended as vehemently as a lie.

And he felt a kind of self-indulgence, a sumptuousness, in fact, reading through the words, knowing he could not retain them, that they were his for the moment only.

We wish for philosophy, he thought. It will not come, and when it does, no doubt, we reflect it cost us too dear.