Quotes 20 Mar 18

The western world which came to believe that what are considered species have descended from a common parentage The micro-evolution of the finches was observable. The common ancestry of mammals is not - Charles Darwin Victorian Mythmaker,  A N Wilson Page 10 

 This is an old saying, Atula, it is not a saying of today.

'They blame the man who is silent, they blame the man who speaks too

much, and they blame the man who speaks too little.'  No man can

escape blame in the world.

        --_The Dhammapada_, c 3rdC BC

Euphemisms blind us to reality.  Death becomes 

merely "passing away."  Killing unborn babies 

becomes "terminating a pregnancy."  Copulation 

becomes "going to bed with."  Genocide becomes 

"population control."  Sin becomes "antisocial 

behavior."  Change the language, and you change 

people's perception of reality. 

This could not be so if words were only convenient 

artificial labels.  Changing the label does not 

change the contents of the jar.  But language 

is more than labels; language is a choice of a 

way of thinking and therefore of living, of 

existing.  Our very mode of being is 

determined by our language. 

--Peter Kreeft (1937-    ) 

      _Making Choices: Practical Wisdom For Everyday 

       Moral Decisions_ [1990], Chapter 9 

“If you are for gun control, then you are not against guns, because the guns will be needed to disarm people. So it’s not that you are anti-gun. You’ll need the police’s guns to take away other people’s guns. So you are very pro-gun, you just believe that only the Government (which is, of course, so reliable, honest, moral and virtuous) should be allowed to have guns. There is no such thing as gun control. There is only centralizing gun ownership in the hands of a small,political elite and their minions.” 

-– Stefan Molyneux, Facebook 

https://www.facebook.com/stefan.molyneux/posts/10151606493811679 

Learn in confession to be honest with God.  Do not 

give fair names to foul sins; call them what you 

will, they will smell no sweeter. 

     --C. H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) 

      _Morning And Evening_ [2003]; "April 7, Evening"