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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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The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

People who talk incessantly about ‘change’ are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

The Bible is not a scientific textbook and should never be read as such; rather it reveals what God wants us to know for the sake of our salvation.

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

It is loserthink to attack an opponent by acting as dumb as they act. It might feel good, but it isn’t a winning strategy.

If a bigot says in public often enough that racism is evil, the bigot is self-influencing himself to be less racist. We are better off encouraging insincere but positive opinions, because they are self-fulfilling to a degree. Reward what works.

Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.

I tell you, on the day of judgment men will render account for every careless word they utter; for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

If you buy the story that everything terrible just happened on its own, with no personal responsibility on the part of the victim, you deny that person all agency. . . . In this manner, you strip him or her of all power.

Normally the man of great productive capacity who becomes rich by guiding the labor of many other men does so by enabling them to produce more than they could produce without his guidance; and both he and they share in the benefit, which comes also to the public at large.

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.

Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.

For even when we were with you, we gave you this command: If any one will not work, let him not eat.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Faith is not the childish belief in magic. That is ignorance or even willful blindness. It is instead the realization that the tragic irrationalities of life must be counterbalanced by an equally irrational commitment to the essential goodness of Being.

Life’s most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.

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

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons.

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