[Salvation]

Take this as a reminder to go and read some more.

[Salvation]

Who Dares Attack My Chesterton? (Long)
Chesterton on the ties binding fathers, mothers, and children
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION BY G. K. CHESTERTON, CHAPTER III: THE REAL OBSTACLES
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION BY G. K. CHESTERTON, Chap. II, THE OBVIOUS BLUNDERS
THE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND CONVERSION BY G. K. CHESTERTON, CHAP. I: INTRODUCTORY: A NEW RELIGION
Chesterton on Christmas
Table of Contents for "In Defense Of Sanity: The Best Essays of G.K. Chesterton"
Chesterton and Saint Francis

[Why I Am Catholic}: A [Chesterton] Poem and a Prayer for Michaelmas
G. K. Chesterton: "Who is this guy and why haven’t I heard of him?"
How the Great Wind Came to Beacon House, Chap 1 of Manalive by G. K. Chesterton
Film and Audio Recordings of G. K. Chesterton
Chesterton on "The Human Family and the Holy Family"
Why I Am A Catholic by G. K. Chesterton
"The God In The Cave" | From The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton) Part 1
Alternatives to Assigned Readings
Aquinas vs. Luther: A Brief Excerpt from Chesterton
Social Reform versus Birth Control

[Joe 6-pack]

Three of my favorite British writers, Chesterton, Kipling and M.R. James all passed away in 1936; Chesterton and James within a few days of one another.

Their lives and writing all took very different courses, but (for me) it's a lot of fun to speculate what it would have been like to be in the same room with all three :-)

[Pelham]

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[Jo Nuvark]

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[x]

Hitchens' article on Chesterton was unfair and unfortunate -- not the note one wants to go out on.

But ... "Who Dares Attack My Chesterton?"

C'mon, the title itself indicates Zac isn't to be taken seriously.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks

[hosepipe]

The thinking man thinks up thoughts..
They need not be true or fine or crafted well..

But they must be true to him...
Set in stone until carved and curved..

What is consciousness where thoughts arise?..
As toys and baubles and bling?..

[stfassisi]

Here is thee very accurate quotes from Chesterton...

“Calvin viewed Scripture as a legal document in need of proper interpretation. This legalistic approach further infects his theology: just as the Bible is a legal codebook, God is a transcendent Judge, with Whom and regarding Whom Love has no meaning.”

and...

“Such is the society I think they will build unless we can knock it down as fast as they build it. Everything in it, tolerable or intolerable, will have but one use; and that use what our ancestors used to call usance or usury. Its art may be good or bad, but it will be an advertisement for usurers; its literature may be good or bad, but it will appeal to the patronage of usurers; its scientific selection will select according to the needs of usurers; its religion will be just charitable enough to pardon usurers; its penal system will be just cruel enough to crush the critics of usurers; the truth of it will be Slavery; the title of it may quite possibly be Socialism.”

And .....

I should not say to Mr. Rockefeller “I am a rebel.” I should say “I am a respectable man and you are not.” -GK Chesterton

[Tainan]

“Their chief vice is that so many of them are very serious; because I had no time to make them flippant. It is so easy to be solemn; it is so hard to be frivolous.”

Thank you for sharing this article.
That bit alone is more than worth the price of admission.

It ain't easy bein' frivolus!

[Tainan]

“Hitler’s way of defending the independence of the family is to make every family dependent on him and his semi-Socialist State; and to preserve the authority of parents by authoritatively telling all the parents what to do… In other words, he appears to interfere with family life more even than the Bolshevists do; and to do it in the name of the sacredness of the family.”

Om my.
History does seem to repeat itself.
It appears the leftists and Hitler have taken that same playbook to heart.