Chesterton quotes
In the past I've posted quotes and excerpts from Mencken and Machiavelli, but here are two from the opposite end of the cultural spectrum:
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I get what he's saying.
In the first quote - pack enough corruption and mistakes via incompetence tightly together, pretend your trying to forge a mistake-diamond, and some accidentally correct fusion might create a solid structure, and that's been the progress of law - not reason but simply holes in corruption and incompetence that couldn't be corrected because they created a self-reconciling logic by accident. Otherwise progressives boldly make new mistakes while conservatives defend those already made.
For Christian virtues unleashed - John Gray talks about that a lot. Secular humanism as a Christian heresy, Communism as a Christian heresy, one could say Transhumanism is a Gnostic heresy. The second of the three killed tens of millions, the first may have done similar damage indirectly if it helped justify colonialism, the third remains to be seen but could probably make both of the former blush if given enough latitude.
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“Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.” - James Baldwin
Christianity was invoked to justify colonialism more often than "secular humanism". The Victorians saw themselves as spreading bathtubs and Christianity to the great unwashed. And secular humanism didnt exist until the 18th century anyway -after western colonialism had already been underway for 250 years. Though you could argue that Marxism was an offshoot of 'secular humanism' - then lay the deaths from Communism at the feet of secular humanism THAT indirect way I suppose.