“Only a Sith deals in absolutes” —Obi-Wan Kenobi Freedom and Nature Discussions about liberty have to begin with definitions and of course, include reference points. After all, no one is free to do anything and everything that they want to...
Want. Take. Have. —Faith, “Bad Girls,” Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1999) Come, thou long expected Jesus / Born to set Thy people free. — Charles Wesley, “Hymns for the Nativity of Our Lord (1744) But what’s the real problem no one is willing to...
A long time ago in Ireland there lived a man named Columba who loved books. —Jean Fritz, The Man Who Loved Books (1981) My son, I tell thee soothfastlie;/ No gift is like libertie;/ Then never live in slaverie. —a translated precept from...
Christ, the Second Adam, will perform the task assigned to the First Adam, causing the Holy Mountain to grow and encompass the entire world. —David Chilton, Paradise Restored (1985) . . . But the kingdom of Christ shall break other kingdoms in...
But I have never known a Communist who was not acutely aware of the crisis of history whose solution he found in Communism’s practical program, its vision and faith. —Whittaker Chambers, Witness (1952) God’s answer thus is addressed...
In a transatlantic airliner, as the navigator plots the plane’s projected course, at a certain point he will make a neat dot and draw a tiny circle around it, labeling it PNR. —Marshall & Manuel, The Light and the Glory (1980) History...
And what is liberty? Can it be limited, or is true liberty only unlimited liberty? —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Law and Liberty (1977) Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord/But you’re gonna have to serve somebody. —Bob Dylan, Gotta Serve...
What the First Amendment separated was the Church as an institution from the State as an institution. —Gary DeMar, God and Government (1997) To admit that the church is separate from the state is not the same as saying that the state is separated...
The early councils had as their primary purpose the defense and establishment of truth, not unity. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Foundations of Social Order (1978) Loving Those Who Hate God? “Should you help the ungodly, and love those who hate God?”...
“There is no other stream,” said the Lion. -C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (2009) Wash, and Be Clean Naaman and his entourage pulled up before the prophet’s hovel of a home. Naaman was ready to be impressed and amazed. His master, the king...
…and then there were other people on the island. We called them the Others, and they started attacking us. —Hurley, Lost (2009) The primary role of anthropology thus was a process of ‘inventing the human other’ in order to develop a theory of...
They showed a piece of paper saying “eminent domain.” —Buckner and Garcia, Wreck It, Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Think about it: What the Court said was that the government can take your property from you and give it to someone else simply if it...
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