Tag: Chrestomathy

“The people running the world are fools. Now many of them, no doubt, did well on their GREs. The tachometer in their little red convertible of a brain can bounce nicely at the right side of the dial. But that does not change the fact that they are barreling down the wrong road late at night, a dark and stormy night actually, and the bridge right up ahead of them is out. Once they launch the whole red operation off the end of that collapsed bridge, the tachometer, such as it is, becomes largely irrelevant. One does not glance at it anymore. One has somehow lost interest.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 77-78

“We have now advanced well past the absurdity horizon, the point past which no recovery is possible without resorting to the forces of dark bigotry and reaction.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 75

“A return to sanity will be a return to an unapologetic acceptance of the fact that men are of necessity going to be dominant. They only choice we have as a society is between whether the dominance is going to be constructive or destructive. Because the poobahs in charge have spent the last generation or so outlawing every form of constructive male dominance they can identify, we are now discovering that—far from empowering women—they have actually empowered destructive male dominance. Put another way, when constructive male dominance is outlawed, only outlaws will have male dominance.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, pp. 72-73

“Women really do need to be protected and guarded from men. They need this because there really is a thing called toxic masculinity. But the only ones who are capable of protecting women from men are the men. The only thing capable of protecting women from toxic masculinity is masculinity.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 72

“When you are trying to describe bio-males competing against women in women’s sports, that elusive phrase you are looking for is #ToxicMasculinity.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 70

“Once they have the law in place, they will grant your reductio—on the age of consent, on polygamy, and on the bisexual thing. On everything. The terminus is sexual anarchy.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 67

“A Christian civil order will grant them liberties that they have no intention of granting to us.”

Mere Christendom, p. 153

“Under the new tyranny of the raw act of choosing, nothing would prevent two people from marrying, one in Massachusetts and one in Washington, whose one thing they share ‘in common’ is the fact that they have never met each other, never want to, and are resolved never to exchange any email whatsoever.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 62

[Regarding Acts 17:2 and 24:25] “And so what is free speech? It is not a means toward theocratic tyranny. Neither is it a secular end in itself. No. It is gospel fruit, and Jesus is the Lord of it.”

Mere Christendom, p. 151

“The problem is that as soon as they abandon the understanding of marriage as a covenanted conjugal relationship of a man and a woman, they have no consistent stopping point. Some of them don’t want a consistent stopping point, and others of them do—but they still can’t have one.”

Virgins and Volcanoes, p. 60