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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The Bible is a library composed of many books, each written and edited by many people. It’s a truly emergent document—a selected, sequenced and finally coherent story written by no one and everyone over many thousands of years.

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!

When the people are weak the state is strong; when the state is weak the people are strong.

Without justice, mercy would be indifference to wrong: without mercy, justice would be vindictive.

There is nothing better or more necessary than love.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus [and] the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

In despotic States men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

O Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the godless chatter and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge, for by professing it some have missed the mark as regards the faith.

Communism, in particular, was attractive not so much to oppressed workers, its hypothetical beneficiaries, but to intellectuals—to those whose arrogant pride in intellect assured them they were always right.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government—that is despotism.

If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.

[Pure] democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

There are worse things than losing an election; the worst thing is to lose one’s convictions and not tell the people the truth.

If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

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

Saints are not abnormal cases to be studied by a modernistic doctor. They were—they are—normal, with flesh like yours. And they conquered.

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power.

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