“Did someone already make the point that if faith in God is absurd, faith in man is pitiful?”
Again I quote myself, a thought prompted on August 14, 2001 by forced abortions in the People’s Republic of China
An election-night pundit “appeared to have had her hair fried for the occasion.”
John Doyle, “Television,” in Globe & Mail November 3, 2004
On Global News Radio 640 with Alex Pierson and John Mraz I discussed Ontario’s flirtation with anti-racist math, the right of private businesses to set their own policies on proof of vaccination, and complaints about a new Governor General whose bilingualism doesn’t involve French.
“If man does find a solution to world peace, it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”
George Marshall, quoted in Kenneth Adelman The Great Universal Embrace
In my latest National Post column I express enthusiasm for freedom in Cuba… and Canada.
“It is not a universal advantage in situations of conflict to be inalienably and manifestly rational in decision and motivation.”
2005 Nobel Prize in Economics winner Thomas Schelling quoted in National Post October 11, 2005
In The Interim I reflect on classic books on the vital topic of citizenship only to realize I can’t think of any.
“A very honest atheist with whom I once debated made use of the expression, ‘Men have only been kept in slavery by the fear of hell.’ As I pointed out to him, if he had said that men had only been freed from slavery by the fear of hell, he would at least have been referring to an unquestionable historical fact.”
G.K. Chesterton in St. Francis of Assisi, quoted in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 4 # 6 (April/May 2001)