Words Worth Noting - December 25, 2025

“one fact which sticks out like a spike as huge as the Matterhorn is the fact that the Christianity which created Christendom did definitely declare that its religious founder, unlike other religious founders, had risen from the dead…. Nobody ever said that Confucius rose from the dead; and nobody would have been more legitimately annoyed at the notion than Confucius.”

G.K. Chesterton “Resurrection” in G.K.’s Weekly April 9, 1936 reprinted in Gilbert: the Magazine of the Society of G.K. Chesterton Vol. 28 #4 (March/April 2025) [said after ridiculing the idea that only those without religion can compare the merits of all religions, which he notes wouldn’t work well in music or science]