I am at an utter and complete loss on how I could possibly write any sort of blog for you that does not continue to immerse you in the smarmy, putrid, festering mess that is our current political cesspool.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\nAnd so, I have resolved that I shall write none of my own words about the situation but instead defer to a great number of quotes, all of which originate with Mr. G.K. Chesterton, vaunted <\/span>English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic of about one hundred years ago:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cWe have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cThe real argument against aristocracy is that it always means the rule of the ignorant. For the most dangerous of all forms of ignorance is ignorance of work.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cFallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cThere are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cA dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cTo have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cThe reformer is always right about what is wrong. He is generally wrong about what is right.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cAll government is an ugly necessity.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cBy experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cA thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cMen invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cI think the oddest thing about the advanced people is that, while they are always talking about things as problems, they have hardly any notion of what a real problem is.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cThe riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\u201cOnce abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Today\u2019s Praise<\/span><\/span><\/div>\nTo him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy\u2014<\/span> to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. Jude 1:24-25<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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