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Tag: Chrestomathy

Because Natural is Important

Posted on Monday, January 16, 2017Tuesday, January 17, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“. . . a woman who has a botoxed face and siliconed chest, but who eats plenty of leafy greens because it seems ‘more natural’) (Food Catholic, p. 12).

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Pharisee Devils

Posted on Thursday, January 12, 2017Friday, January 13, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

[Concerning 1 Tim. 4:2-3] “In scriptural terms, when a person’s conscience is seared with a hot iron, he doesn’t become an anarchist, he becomes a fierce moralist . . . A man with a seared conscience is the prohibitionist, the wowser, the fusser” (Food Catholic, p. 11).

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Because Fallacies Can Operate on Any Material

Posted on Tuesday, January 10, 2017Tuesday, January 10, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“Once the principles of unreason are well-established in our midst, we will find that we cannot turn them off with a switch, simply because we are now dealing with something more serious” (Food Catholic, p. 9).

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No Idol Is Exceptional

Posted on Monday, January 9, 2017Wednesday, January 11, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“American exceptionalism is the idea that America is more of a creed than a nation. This kind of American exceptionalism makes a certain kind of civic religion possible, a quasi-sacramental approach which all consistent Christians reject as, in equal turns, blasphemous and silly” (Empires of Dirt, p. 10).

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A Simple Binary

Posted on Monday, January 9, 2017Wednesday, January 11, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“I would say the same thing about Jesus. If He is Lord, we should do what He says. If He is not, then we needn’t bother” (Empires of Dirt, p. 10).

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Gratitude: The Sauce

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2017 by Douglas Wilson - 198 comments

“My point is that a man cannot sin by bowing his head over it, saying grace with true gratitude in his heart, and then tucking in—and this truth is not affected by whether what he is about to eat is a chocolate pudding cup from a fast food joint or lots of spinach, rich in …

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The Basics

Posted on Thursday, January 5, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“By mere Christendom I mean a network of nations bound together by a formal, public, civic acknowledgement of the lordship of Jesus Christ and the fundamental truth of the Apostles’ Creed” (Empires of Dirt, p. 9).

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He Just Changes His Clothes

Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2017Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“When the Church crosses the border between ‘outside and persecuted’ to ‘inside and influential,’ that border crossing does not mean that the devil has gone into retirement” (Empires of Dirt, p. 7).

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A Fortiori

Posted on Wednesday, January 4, 2017Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Douglas Wilson - 58 comments

“If bacon is now clean, then how could it be possible for processed cheese not to be?” (Food Catholic, p. 3).

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Nothing to Write Home About

Posted on Tuesday, January 3, 2017Wednesday, January 4, 2017 by Douglas Wilson

“Neither am I a ‘food egalitarian.’ There is great cooking, good cooking, so-so cooking, poor cooking, and carrots out of the bag” (Confessions of a Food Catholic, p. 3).

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