Mahomet established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives. - Blaise Pascal, _Pensees_
Mohammedan's religion might be sustained by scimitars, but Christians' religion must be maintained by love. -C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) _New Park Street Pulpit_, Volume 3 [1857]
"It is good to regularly weigh ourselves on the scale of God's Word." -Spurgeon
On October 15th 1987, Andrei Gromyko (chairman of the Supreme Soviet), boasted, that "there is capitalism and there is socialism, which was born seventy years ago...And in 1,000 years socialism will still be bringing good to the world." Just four years later the Soviet Union collapsed.
"It is incomprehensible to me that any thinker can calmly call himself a modernist; he might as well call himself a Thursdayite. But apart altogether from that particular disturbance, I am conscious of a general irritation expressed against the people who boast of their advancement and modernity in the discussion of religion. But I never succeeded in saying the quite clear and obvious thing that is really the matter with modernism. The real objection to modernism is simply that it is a form of snobbishness. It is an attempt to crush a rational opponent not by reason, but by some mystery of superiority, by hinting that one is specially up to date or particularly 'in the know.' To flaunt the fact that we have had all the last books from Germany is simply vulgar; like flaunting the fact that we have had all the last bonnets from Paris. To introduce into philosophical discussions a sneer at a creed's antiquity is like introducing a sneer at a lady's age. It is caddish because it is irrelevant. The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion." - G. K. Chesterton
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