Israel 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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Universal evidence unmistakably shows that the best results are always obtained in healthful commercial competition.

You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

All things would tend towards nothing, unless the hand of the Almighty preserved them.

We must not expect God to transform us without our bringing something to be transformed.

If you constantly accuse those you disagree with of bigotry, chances are that you, not them, are the bigot.

The more numerous an assembly may be, of whatever characters composed, the greater is known to be the ascendency of passion over reason.

Then they will deliver you up to tribulation, and put you to death; and you will be hated by all nations for my name’s sake. And then many will fall away, and betray one another, and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray.

‘Sola scriptura’ reduces the Bible to a riddle that no one can interpret with certainty because each person can only rely on his or her fallible understanding of the sacred text.

There is no shortage of oppressors among the downtrodden, even if, given their lowly positions, many of them are only tyrannical wannabes.

But [the power of the government to borrow money] certainly ought never to be exercised, but on the most urgent occasions, and then we should not borrow of foreigners if we could possibly avoid it.

The difference between Democrats and Republicans is: Democrats have accepted some ideas of Socialism cheerfully, while Republicans have accepted them reluctantly.

In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.

Countries don’t compete directly with one another in economic terms. When Singapore or China gets richer, America does not become poorer.

Some people think God is infinitely demanding. Some think he is infinitely forgiving. He is both.

For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

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.

There seems little correlation between poverty and honesty. One would rather expect the opposite; dishonesty may not always pay but surely it sometimes does.

It makes little sense to condemn Christianity for its adherents’ and leaders’ hypocrisy; our faith is possibly the only one in the world that openly admits it is full of imperfect, sinful hypocrites.

I would like to die on Mars; just not on impact.

He who lives looking for pleasures only, his senses uncontrolled, immoderate in his food, idle, and weak (Mâra the tempter) will certainly overthrow him, as the wind throws down a weak tree.

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