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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.

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For the Church remains our mother because Christ remains Christ, and she is not changed into a step-mother simply because of our evil rulers.

Freedom comes from being moral. Slavery to sin arises from being immoral.

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

The Church can, when necessary, change the laws it has itself made, but it cannot change the laws that Christ has made.

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

Evil can be eradicated from the world at large only when it is eradicated from the hearts and lives of individual human beings. Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

I die the king’s faithful servant, and God’s first.

The First Amendment provides the only kind of security system that can preserve a free government—one that leaves the way wide open for people to favor, discuss, advocate, or incite causes and doctrines however obnoxious and antagonistic such views may be to the rest of us.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

But not everyone who is failing is a victim, and not everyone at the bottom wishes to rise, although many do, and many manage it.

Regardless of our policies, practices, or institutions—whether they are wise or unwise, noble or ignoble—there is simply not enough to go around to satisfy all our desires to the fullest.

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

Trying to manage from the top down, when the bottom is out of control, may be the least effective approach.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Don’t set out to raze all shrines—you’ll frighten men. Enshrine mediocrity—and the shrines are razed.

A good deed done with a bad motive benefits others, but not the doer.

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

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