Uncle Scott Ferguson

Posted September 14, 2008, 11:38 p.m.

I mentioned a few weeks ago now that posting would be light due to an unexpected death in the family. The death was my uncle, Scott Ferguson, who lived in the area (Reston) with my grandmother.

His death notice was printed in The Washington Post today.

I’m still not going to go into a lot of detail . . . but I wanted to at least add a name to what little I had said before.

The text of the death notice asks Uncle Scott’s friends and co-workers to “keep him in [their] thoughts and prayers.” I hope you will do the same.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

‘Sola scriptura’ reduces the Bible to a riddle that no one can interpret with certainty because each person can only rely on his or her fallible understanding of the sacred text.

If you are not a wild and crazy fanatic when it comes to giving yourself to God, you are not practicing the heart of Christianity. If you are a fanatic about anything else, you are an idolater.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

In general, if you were to design a country ideally suited to flourish in the world we are living in, it would look more like the United States than any other.

Christianity . . . divided the crime from the criminal. The criminal we must forgive unto seventy times seven. The crime we must not forgive at all.

Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists.

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

Humans need to work out how to have liberalism without it descending into degeneracy.

God created man and woman, equal to each other as persons and in dignity. Each is completely human and is meant to complement the other in a communion of persons, seen most evidently in marriage.

I have seizures of momentary sanity.

Here is the thing you must bear in mind: I do not represent public opinion; I represent the public. There is a wide difference between the two, between the real interests of the public, and the public’s opinion of these interests.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

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.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

[A boundary is] an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of the other.

Few Christian doctrines are taught in the Bible as clearly and as explicitly as is the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

There are people in government who don’t want other people to know what they know. It’s just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I’ll show you a loser.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

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