As many people know, I’m a big fan of George Orwell’s work. I’ve been slowly reading Down and Out in Paris and London… it was kind of dragging, when all of a sudden the book exploded with deep meaning and insight. Here’s just one short passage from chapter XXII:- “The mass of the rich...
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“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at least genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well,...
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“There exists I believe throughout the whole Christian world a law which makes it blasphemy to deny or to doubt the divine inspiration of all the books of the old and new testament from Genesis to Revelations. In most countries of Europe it is punished by fire at the stake, or the rack or...
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“Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands. They were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle’s Lecture. It happened that they produced on me an effect precisely the reverse of what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted,...
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Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served...
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Quote of the Day: Abraham Lincoln – ‘Two Principles’ Republicans who support a pure capital top-down economics while attack labor, would do well in pausing to contemplate just how far removed the modern GOP has become from it’s foundation: “It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. That is the real...
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How does this fit in with Tea Party ideology? “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.” -State of the Union Address: Abraham Lincoln...
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“What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of...
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God is Dead – Chesterton vs. Nietzsche Christopher Hitchens once said of Chesterton, “too bad he was a Christian.” Indeed, G. K. Chesterton was a master of letters, with a charming wit and quick humor that will leave one’s sides hurting from laughter. Chesterton was also a fantastic Christian apologist who was able to...
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“Even if Leibniz’s demonstration that this is the best of all possible worlds were correct, it would still not be a vindication of divine providence. For the Creator created not only the world, he also created possibility itself: therefore he should have created the possibility of a better world than this one. In general,...
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