The aborting mother

The bumper sticker read, “Having an abortion does not make you un-pregnant, it makes you the mother of a dead baby”.

Of Pinker [again]

"tantalizing intimations of a fairly large ignorance"

Pinker

"The effort to put our lives beyond the reach of love".

Tyranny

The essential of the tyrant is pride ... That evil of egomania, or making the self the centre of the universe, is a purely spiritual evil. GKC

Original sin

Not only all that is best in man, but rather especially and emphatically all that worst in man, springs from some mysterious root that is only found in man. GKC

Kierkegaard

The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. Take any words in the New Testament and forget everything except pledging yourself to act accordingly. My God, you will say, if I do that my whole life will be ruined. How would I ever get on in the world? Herein lies the real place of Christian scholarship. Christian scholarship is the Church’s prodigious invention to defend itself against the Bible, to ensure that we can continue to be good Christians without the Bible coming too close. Oh, priceless scholarship, what would we do without you? Dreadful it is to fall into the hands of the living God. Yes, it is even dreadful to be alone with the New Testament.

Joyce

On being asked if he'd become a Protestant, James Joyce replied: "I may have lost my faith; but I have not lost my mind."