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To: Salvation; Jo Nuvark

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


17 posted on 06/06/2012 1:58:08 PM PDT by stfassisi ((The greatest gift God gives us is that of overcoming self"-St Francis Assisi)))
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To: stfassisi

I like those — especially the Calvin and Rockefeller ones.


24 posted on 06/06/2012 3:06:31 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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