Why I Am A Catholic by G. K. Chesterton

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[Salvation]

I posted something by Chesterton yesterday, and some FReepers really liked it. Here is something else.

[Salvation]

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[surroundedbyblue]

:-D

Sorry for the cheesy emoticon but it’s how I feel after reading that

[HerrBlucher]

Thanks for the Chesterton posts, the big guy never disappoints.

Nine out of ten of what we call new ideas are simply old mistakes.

Yes, hidden away by the obscurity of history only to rise again as a lightbulb in a fools mind.

It sounds harmless to say, as most modern people have said: "Actions are only wrong if they are bad for society." Follow it out, and sooner or later you will have the inhumanity of a hive

A few of us went around and around with this on an earlier thread about Atheism. It is the morality of Atheism, and the only morality Atheism can support.

[Salvation]

Well, maybe those atheists need to read Chesterton. LOL!

[johngrace]

One of My Brothers is a agnostic but he loves G K Chesterton. Please Pray for Him. Thanks!

[Salvation]

Did you see the thread I posted yesterday from Ignatius Insight?

Prayers for your brother....got a name?

[johngrace]

Yes! His name Dan.

[the invisib1e hand]

Whew! Thank God I'm already a Catholic, or I might have had to read all that! ;)

but seriously folks: Chesterton's always worth the time. I just have a long to-do list at the moment.

Common sense bump.

[HerrBlucher]

Has he read “Orthodoxy”? And if so, have you discussed it with him?

[johngrace]

Never talked specifics. He lives far away. I will though thanks!

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[Jo Nuvark]

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About time Free Republic discovered
my favorite apologist. Whoot!

[GOP Poet]

Thanks so much Salvation.

[HerrBlucher]

Get a skype acount and a webcam, and see that he has skype too, and have at it!

[Salvation]

Prayers for Dan. It’s been my experience that most Catholics — momentarily agnostic — do come back to the faith.

Keep giving him the good stuff, though!

[Jvette]

Love Chesterton. Thanks for the post.

[Ozone34]

It’s the only thing that makes any sense!

[utahagen]

My favorite Chesterton quote: “There is only one sin: to call a green leaf gray.”

[Cicero]

Yes, if there’s one single book of Chesterton’s that is most useful in teasing out the nature of Catholic truth, it is Orthodoxy.

A brilliant book.