“The choice between secular options on the right is like a competition between a gentlemanly Epicurean and a rowdy one. The former walks at dawn in a manicured flower garden, contemplating chess moves and Rawlsian political theory, while the latter is more interested in crack cocaine and hoochie mamas. Without an overarching standard governing the two of them, we are simply comparing a longer life of nobler, milder pleasures, and a shorter life consisting of a blowout filled with orgiastic ones. But when we have to choose on those grounds, it is simply a matter of personal preference.”
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Chaplains for Pirate Ships
Well, to be honest, they aren’t exactly pirate ships, which would not be very Christian. They are more like privateers, operating with letters of marque and reprisal. But let us not get distracted from the main point. Greyfriars Hall has been operating for some twenty plus years now, graduating its first alum in 2004—which meant …
Privileges Are Not the Same Thing
“The secular state dispenses freedoms (it would be better to call them privileges) like they were party favors. They function as bribes. They serve as . . . bread . . . or circuses. As Chesterton points out somewhere, sexual license is the first and most obvious bribe to be offered to a slave. For many in our era, that was the bribe that ushered them into their bondage to the state.”
Mere Christendom, p. 9
The Straight Path
“Why would You spend so much of Your wisdom
Constructing the road that winds up to You
If You did not desire that we would then take it?
If Christ is the road, then can we not come?
Why call us if You did not want us to come?
Why would You choose to make the way straight
If You did not wish us to take the straight way?”
21 Prayers, p. 104
Epimenides, Lewis, and the Van Tillians
Introduction: One of the difficulties that hampers our efforts in apologetics is an unfortunate tendency that we have in projecting New Testament categories back into the Old Testament. What ...
One Name Given
“We lift Christ up to You so that in our turn
We too might be lifted, raised up to You.
We approach You through Christ and in no other way.”
21 Prayers, p. 101
Of Necessity
“If there is no God above the state, then the state has become god—the point past which there is no appeal.”
Mere Christendom, p. 5
Letters to Make Us All Wiser
Letter to the Editor: Have you figured out that (fake) Jews control the USA yet? That they are ethnically cleansing Palestinians (the REAL Semites)?Or are you still living in Boomerville, ...
Works Both Ways
“The liberties of the individual are too precious to be left in the hands of a civic agnosticism. To not know why you are extending liberties to the citizenry is to not know why you would be doing anything bad if you took them all away.”
Mere Christendom, p. 5