SoVA Trip Last Weekend; Other Updates

Posted April 27, 2006, 8:39 p.m.

We had a great time last weekend visiting people in Southern Virginia. Between Friday morning and Sunday night we had driven from Fairfax to Bedford to Roanoke to Lynchburg to Bedford to Altavista to Lynchburg and back to Fairfax. Lots of driving, yes, but it was worth it to see a bunch of people we’ve been neglecting.

There were a few people that we missed; maybe we can catch them on a future visit.

Aside from that, I’ve been doing a lot of reading according to my previous plan. I’ve read the Bible up through Esther, and now I’m back to working on my political theory book before I go back to the Bible later.

Melissa has been hard at work with this Arts & Crafts Fair thing (see her blog), so I’ve mainly been trying to stay out of her way ;-). This kind of event is definitely not my area of expertise.

Anyway, I’ll aim for some more substantial updates soon!

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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I am an American by choice and conviction. I was born in Europe, but I came to America because this was the country based on my moral premises and the only country where one could be fully free to write.

Campaign pledges . . . ought to carry something of the guarantee principle and money-back policy that an honorable business institution carries with the sale of its goods.

The real world randomly conspired to murder humans all the time, and they just called it weather.

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Without justice, mercy would be indifference to wrong: without mercy, justice would be vindictive.

Earnestness is just stupidity sent to college.

I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity.

From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted.

One man may prefer a routine job with much time off for basking in the sun to a more exacting job paying a higher salary; another man may prefer the opposite. If both were paid equally in money, their incomes in a more fundamental sense would be unequal.

Socialism, which to many western thinkers is a sort of kingdom of justice, was in fact full of coercion, bureaucratic greed, corruption, and avarice. . . .

To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.

Whoever then relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who does them and teaches them shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

Life is not fair. It is tempting to believe that government can rectify what nature has spawned. But it is also important to recognize how much we benefit from the very unfairness we deplore.

When the law contradicts what most people regard as moral and proper, they will break the law. . . .

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.

The last two thousand million years are slow evolution: they are the smoke and ashes of bright but very rapid fireworks.

Accept whatever is brought upon you, and in changes that humble you be patient. For gold is tested in the fire, and acceptable men in the furnace of humiliation.

We are governed, our minds molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.

You see, this is my business. I built it up and as long as I live I propose to run it the way I want it run.

There is an implicit but astonishing arrogance in the idea that all the apostles, all the church fathers[,] and all the millions of ordinary Christians were fundamentally mistaken about Christ for nineteen centuries, and only a few theologians, sitting at their desks, in a very different culture, nineteen centuries later, finally understood him.

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