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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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Am I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or do you begrudge my generosity?

Some of these rights are said to be unalienable, such as the rights of conscience. Yet even these have been often invaded, where they have not been carefully secured, by express and solemn bills and declarations in their favor.

While the law may not draw classifications based upon mere thoughts, beliefs, or inclination, it can and routinely does distinguish between types of conduct.

If you’re using a biased instrument, it doesn’t matter how many measurements you take—you’re aiming at the wrong target.

Western man got rid of God in order to make himself God, and then he became bored with his own divinity.

You make a thing voluntary and then half the people do not do it. That is not what you willed, but your will has made it possible.

If we attach great importance to the opinion of ordinary men in great unanimity when we are dealing with daily matters, there is no reason why we should disregard it when we are dealing with history or fable.

Our task is not one of producing persuasive propaganda; Christianity shows its greatness when it is hated by the world.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

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.

Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.

For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up; but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

All people serve their ambition. In that matter, there are no atheists. There are only people who know, and don’t know, what God they serve.

The only problem with demolishing examples of Brutalist architecture is that there are other examples still standing.

And it is a smaller thing to suffer the punishment than to have deserved it.

Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed. Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

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.

Normally, thought precedes word; it seeks and formulates the word. But praying the Psalms and liturgical prayer in general is exactly the other way round: The word, the voice, goes ahead of us, and our mind must adapt to it.

Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid.

It takes reason and will to sin.

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