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“The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.”

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Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-American philosopher born on May 3, 1895, and died on April 17, 1987. He was a leading figure in Christian philosophy, known for his unique philosophical methods and theological perspective. more

“Many teachers of the Sixties generation said "We will steal your children", and they did. A significant part of America has converted to the ideas of the 1960s - hedonism, self-indulgence and consumerism. For half of all Americans today, the Woodstock culture of the Sixties is the culture they grew up with - their traditional culture. For them, Judeo-Christian culture is outside the mainstream now. The counter-culture has become the dominant culture, and the former culture a dissident culture - something that is far out, and 'extreme'.”

“It hurt the economic historians, the Marxists and the fabians, to admit that the Ten Hour Bill, the basic piece of 19th century legislation, came down from the top, out of aa nobleman's private feelings about the Gospel, or that the abolition of the slave trade was achieved, not through the operation of some "law" of profit and loss, but peurlet as the result of tyhe new humanitarianism of the Evangelicals.”

“Sleep is pain's easiest salve”

Pain Sleep

Book:Selected Poetry

Source: Selected Poetry

“Thou shalt not covet means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man's goods - which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.”

Men Mean Christian Goods Contemplating Another Man Seizures

Author:John Chamberlain

“All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.”

Soul Body

Book:Stories and Biographies from Iqbal

Source: Stories and Biographies from Iqbal

“It is significant that the socialist mentality is usually also an atheistic mentality, where atheism is understood not so much as the disbelief in God as the hatred of God˜an attitude as precarious logically as it has been destructive in practice. There is an important sense in which religion as traditionally understood reconciles humanity to imperfection and to failure. Since the socialist sets out to abolish failure, traditional religion is worse than _de trop_: it is an impediment to perfection.”

“If Socialism, like all errors, contains some truth (which, moreover, the Supreme Pontiffs have never denied), it is based nevertheless on a theory of human society peculiar to itself and irreconcilable with true Christianity. Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”

Ifs Humans Christian Term Religious Christianity Theory Catholic Errors Supreme Socialism Peculiar Denied Nevertheless Socialist Contradictory Human Society True Christianity

Author:Pope Pius XI

“'Helping industry' is the elephant pit of socialism, a deep hole with sharp spikes at the bottom, covered over with twigs and fresh grass.”

Helping Industry Bottom Holes Socialism Grass Covered Elephants Pits Twigs

Author:Enoch Powell

“Then there was communism's weak-tea sister, socialism. Socialists maintained that we shouldn't take all the money away from all the people since all the people don't have money. We should take all the money away from only the people who make money. Then, when we run out of that, we could take more money from the people who...hey, wait! Where'd you people go? What do you mean you're "tax exiles in Monaco?"”

People Should Mean Running Waiting Taxes Weak Socialism Hey Communism Tea Making Money More Money Exile Monaco

Book:The C.E.O. of the Sofa

Source: The C.E.O. of the Sofa

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