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Homeless Refugees
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We mustn't forget that what we are "celebrating" tomorrow is the homeless refugee couple having to spend the cold and frosty night in a barn for their baby's birth.
Today the Little Englanders would rather see them drowned in the Mediterranean.
Today the Little Englanders would rather see them drowned in the Mediterranean.
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We should be grateful the the fable of peace and love hasn't been twisted out of all recognition by greedy, powerful forces bent on profiting from the gullibility of the downtrodden and dispossesed. It could all have led to misery for millions down the centuries.
23:34 Mon 24th Dec 2018
There is no need to corner the market in anything, nor the need to browbeat a 'flavour of' from someone - just follow your belief or non belief to the best you can. There is so much angst and baiting on these pages from many angles, it's quite distressing at times to read.
Happy New Year, good health and happiness.
Happy New Year, good health and happiness.
naomi; //...Chesterton whom you also consider to be one of the ‘right’ people//
Some wonder whether there are not good grounds for considering G. K. Chesterton for canonisation even. It has been said that there was 'a special integrity and blamelessness about him, a special devotion to the good and to justice, a special capacity for friendship and for winning the awed respect of an astonishingly diverse range of people and a special memorableness (as so many have testified). Above all, there was that breathtaking, intuitive (almost angelic) possession of the Truth and awareness of the supernatural, which only a truly holy person can enjoy. This was the gift of heroic intelligence and understanding—and of heroic prophecy. He was a giant, spiritually as well as physically. Has there ever been anyone quite like him?'
I have searched in my quote bag, but I can't think of many 20th century figures who would warrant such praise, can you?
Some wonder whether there are not good grounds for considering G. K. Chesterton for canonisation even. It has been said that there was 'a special integrity and blamelessness about him, a special devotion to the good and to justice, a special capacity for friendship and for winning the awed respect of an astonishingly diverse range of people and a special memorableness (as so many have testified). Above all, there was that breathtaking, intuitive (almost angelic) possession of the Truth and awareness of the supernatural, which only a truly holy person can enjoy. This was the gift of heroic intelligence and understanding—and of heroic prophecy. He was a giant, spiritually as well as physically. Has there ever been anyone quite like him?'
I have searched in my quote bag, but I can't think of many 20th century figures who would warrant such praise, can you?
Naomi, I defy you to read Chesterton's "Heretics" (which I read as a twenty -year old and reread when I retired) and not enjoy his attack on modernism, the trendy lefties of the period (including Shaw, whom GK obviously admired) and the fashionable fads of the time. (Example: every[i lefty in those days was [i]for] eugenics - Wells, Shaw, Keynes, the whole kit and caboodle
The book supports - in spirit he apocryphal attribution to Chesterton of the quote "when people stop believing in God they will start believing in anything
The book supports - in spirit he apocryphal attribution to Chesterton of the quote "when people stop believing in God they will start believing in anything