Christianity Archives - Scott Bradford: Off on a Tangent

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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All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.

Congress shall make no law respecting . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ‘facts.’ They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me; but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened round his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Organic life . . . has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.

I find it hard, as a liberal, to see any justification for graduated taxation solely to redistribute income. This seems a clear case of using coercion to take from some in order to give to others and thus to conflict head-on with individual freedom.

For if a mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other?

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? . . . If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?

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

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

The man who cannot believe his senses, and the man who cannot believe anything else, are both insane.

Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

It is far better to render beings in your care competent than to protect them.

We know on seeing smoke there must be fire, and cause and result are ever classed together thus. We are forbidden, then, to say an unthinking cause can make a thing that has intelligence.

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