“It is true that a great deal of the rhetoric of the new atheism is often just the confessional rote of materialist fundamentalism (which, like all fundamentalisms, imagines that in fact it represents the side of reason and truth); but it is also true that the new atheism has sprung up in a garden of contending fundamentalisms.” ReasonFactsSidesDealsImagineAtheismGardenImagine ThatRhetoricFundamentalismSprungContendingSprung Up Author:David Bentley
“It is not only possible to say a great deal in praise of play; it is really possible to say the highest things in praise of it. It might reasonably be maintained that the true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.” HumansPlayMightEarthLife IsHeavenDealsObjectsHighestGardenTasksPraiseHuman LifePlaygrounds Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“I myself have loved a lady and pursued her with a great deal of under-age protestation, whom some three or four gallants that have enjoyed would with all their hearts have been glad to have been rid of. 'Tis just like a summer birdcage in a garden: the birds that are without despair to get in, and the birds that are within despair and are in a consumption for fear they shall never get out.” HeartHas BeensAgeThreeFearJusticeDealsFourDespairSummerBirdGardenGladEnjoyedConsumptionPursued Author:John Webster