--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > Sam is really having this debate with the wrong person.
>
> I don't wish to add more hot air to this already-
> Hindenberg-sized debate, but you're sure right on
> this one. Who Harris should be debating (were he still
> alive) is G. K. Chesterton, one of the few Christian
> commentators who had a sense of humor. A few selected
> quotes:
>
> "'My country, right or wrong,' is a thing that no patriot
> would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is
> like saying, 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"
>
> "Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become
> fashions."
>
> "I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean."
>
> "I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the
> very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact
> opposite."
>
> "It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is
> bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have
> gone wrong."
>
> "Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small
> virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping
> his temper."
>
> "Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
>
> "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love
> our enemies; probably because they are generally the same
> people."
>
> "The thing I hate about an argument is that it always
> interrupts a discussion."
>
> "To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to
> be right in doing it."
>
> "There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever
> existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like
> a small mob."
>
> "The rich are the scum of the earth in every country."
>
> "There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject;
> the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."
>
> "The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is
> the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head.
> And it is his head that splits."
>
> "The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic
> asylums."
>
> "When Michelangelo finished the painting of the Sistine
> Chapel's ceiling, he spent the rest of his life trying to
> remove the paint that had poured into his sleeve."
>
> "The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting.
> It has been found difficult; and left untried."
>
> "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can
> find a rock."
>
> "The coziness between church and state is good for the state
> and bad for the church."
>
> "To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning
> the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope
> means hoping when everything seems hopeless."
>
> "How you think when you lose determines how long it will be
> until you win."
>
> "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than
> going to the garage makes you a car."
>
> "Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."
>
> "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found
> truth without it."
>
These are all fun- I like the second to last one.
