Submitted by jbudziszewski on Wed, 08/27/2014 - 00:00

 

Clean, Obvious, Cold, Superficial, and Wrong

"Everything in that old [pagan] world would appear to have been clean and obvious.  A good man was a good man; a bad man was a bad man.  For this reason they had no charity; for charity is a reverent agnosticism towards the complexity of the soul.”  -- G.K. Chesterton, Heretics, Chapter 12

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Fri, 08/22/2014 - 00:00

 

 

It Was a Beautiful Fight

My father loved St. Paul, so all my life people have been quoting to me the apostle’s remark, “I have fought the good fight,” and his advice to the young Timothy, who stands for each one of us, to follow his example.

Submitted by jbudziszewski on Wed, 08/20/2014 - 00:00

Recently, upon re-reading George Orwell’s penetrating fable Animal Farm, I was reminded of the enormously influential utilitarian bioethicist Peter Singer.  Singer is one of the founders of the Animal Rights movement.  One of his mottoes, and the title of one of his most famous essays, is “All Animals Are Equal.”