History 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 stories we can neither ignore nor forget are unforgettable [because] they speak to something we know, but do not know that we know.

And as midday passed, [the prophets of Ba’al] raved on until the time of the offering of the oblation, but there was no voice; no one answered, no one heeded.

Some western scholars have tried to argue that Islamic anti-Semitism is only a recent phenomenon learned from the Nazis and that Jews lived safely under Islamic rule for centuries, especially in medieval Spain. These assertions are not supported by the evidence.

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.

A constitution is a compact of a people with their rulers; if the rulers break the compact, the people have a right and ought to remove them and do themselves justice.

Servitude cannot be complete if the press is free: the press is the chiefest democratic instrument of freedom.

Jesus’s acts of compassion and his call for others to do likewise were never to be done by compulsion, but voluntarily, by free-will choice.

The things Congress does best are nothing and overreacting.

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

Every day one comes across somebody who says that of course his view may not be the right one. Of course his view must be the right one, or it is not his view. We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.

It is the American example that deserves the most credit for the global spread of democratic politics and free-market economies. In this sense, too, the world of today is a world that we invented.

I recommend that you improve your psychological bravery but say no to anything that has a strong chance of killing you.

The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

No man chooses evil, because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

We cast no aspersions on any race or creed, but we must remember that every object of our institutions of society and government will fail unless America be kept American.

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

If you wish to attain holy recollection, you will do so not by receiving but by denying.

Superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.

Since exact science derives its exactness from measurements, the application of quantities, it is limited to matter; and since science is limited to matter, it has no philosophical or religious implications whatsoever.

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