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Updated May 16, 2024

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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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In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They are both methods of proof which cannot themselves be proved.

Skepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

In short, the scientific discourse, like any dominant discourse, has become the privileged instrument of opportunism, lies, deception, manipulation, and power.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

The more numerous an assembly may be, of whatever characters composed, the greater is known to be the ascendency of passion over reason.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Money is the best counterfeit money.

There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.

If the body of the people will not govern themselves, and govern themselves well too, the consequence is unavoidable . . . a few will, and must govern them.

There is no such thing as success in a bad business.

Good government is no substitute for self-government.

Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all.

It is a matter of perfect indifference where a thing originated; the only question is: ‘Is it true in and for itself?’

Brilliant minds often reject Christianity because they don’t want it to be true, because it is no longer fashionable[,] or because it commands obedience, repentance and humility.

But above all, my brethren, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or with any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your no be no, that you may not fall under condemnation.

In a more careful use of the terms, not all ‘schooling’ is ‘education,’ and not all ‘education’ is ‘schooling.’

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

I’ve never been tempted to take any of my companies public. Making choices is a lot easier when you have to answer only to yourself.

The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.