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And Which Reveals a Lot
“Culture is the spiritual state of the people externalized.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 97
The Scouring of the American Shire
"Do you not yet understand? My time is over: it is no longer my task to set things to rights, nor to help folk to do so. And as for you, my dear friends, you will need no help. You are grown up ...
Culture Are Not Static
“Notice that Paul says that Cretans are a particular way, but notice also that he tells Titus to rebuke them sharply so that they can learn how to be different. In other words, he is not fatalistic about it. Cultures can grow in virtue, and cultures can also be corrupted in vice.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 83
Scary Indeed
A Culture With AIDS
“A society is an organic body, and like other bodies, it can have a disease that is well contained by the immune system, and it can also have a disease that has overwhelmed the immune system. In other words, societies can have AIDS.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 82
Path of Least Resistance
“We have to remember that we are a fallen race and that we sin downhill. We compromise downhill. We grow less disciplined downhill. It is not hard to go downhill.”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 81
Galadriel and the Chimp
Introduction: Like many obviously correct religious phrases, the soothing and very centered one about being gospel-centered, or Christ-centered, or Bible-centered is obviously correct. But ...
The Forest and the Trees
“There is no reason why, in the Bible as in Shakespeare, the minute study of parts should not be dangerous to the conception of the whole.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 105
Stay Away from Flattering Doctors
“Medical science is supposed to be about the pursuit of truth, not the pursuit of tolerable truths”
Devoured by Cannabis, p. 64