“Did you know that we are just 5 percent of the world’s population, and yet we still consume 62 percent of the world’s priggishness?” (Food Catholic, p. 49). … [Read more...]

“There is a kind of religious duty that is of the flesh, for the flesh, and by the flesh” (Food Catholic, p. 48). … [Read more...]

“Yeast in the loaf doesn’t obey the established election cycle” (Empires of Dirt, p. 43). … [Read more...]

“John Knox was one of the great fathers of the American political arrangement, a fact that would have astonished him if you had attempted to explain it to him” (Empires of Dirt, p. 42). … [Read more...]

“If Jesus really did come back from the dead, then certain things are false, and the gigantic brotherhood of man has gone pfft” (Empires of Dirt, p.35). … [Read more...]

“Now, despite this disclaimer, if someone comes up to me angrily and says, ‘I don’t care about all those disclaimers . . . you really are talking about me!’ Well, yes, I guess I probably am” (Food Catholic, p. 39). … [Read more...]

“Sorry to get into all the deep theology here but the Christian faith means calling everyone to believe in Jesus” (Empires of Dirt, p. 32). … [Read more...]

“You can still see the modernist idol at work in the television advertisements for the newest Big Pharma drugs. You know the kind—where the fine print of ad copy was written by lawyers with a gruesome turn of mind? ‘Side effects may include writing on the living room floor, … [Read more...]

“Traditional values can’t fight sin, for the same reason that healthy tissue can’t fight cancer, but is rather the tissue that provides cancer with its scope and future” (Empires of Dirt, p. 31). … [Read more...]

In the fifties, if a woman breastfed her baby, she was thought to be acting like a savage, like she wanted to get photographed for National Geographic or something. Why didn’t she do the right thing for her baby and give her this scientific formula in a can? That modernistic … [Read more...]

“But gratitude is not pride, and this is a nation of sinners, prone to do what sinners in this position have always done—which is to interpret blessings as rewards, to see the milk and honey as ‘best in show’ indicators. The reason this is a big deal is that the very quickest way … [Read more...]

“They want you to make all your points to the satisfaction of those who have a vested interest in not being satisfied by them” (Food Catholic, p. 36). … [Read more...]

“And if we should not work for food that perishes, we shouldn’t get worked up over food that perishes” (Food Catholic, p. 30). … [Read more...]

“In my experience, those who are most ambivalent or cynical about patriotic pieties—flags, fireworks, and fun—are most likely to support the abuses of statist power when the state is attempting to become some jitney god in the lives of the citizens. But those who wave the flag at … [Read more...]

[No sense of proportion] “is why so much of the contemporary ‘prophetic’ witness to our civil rulers is such a joke. It is not so much dressed in camel hair with a leather belt as it is decked out in some Kuba the Clown outfit. And then it blames the lack of responsiveness on … [Read more...]