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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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The present age men are not very ready to die in defense of their opinions, but they are rarely inclined to change them; . . . there are fewer martyrs as well as fewer apostates.

Faith and reason are indeed interdependent. One of the great secrets of the universe is that reason leans on faith every bit as much as faith leans on reason.

One’s breeding shows itself nowhere more than in his religion.

You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.

The laws of God, like the law of gravity, do not depend upon how I feel about them. They are inexorable, and God has willed them to be knowable, even in the absence of strong emotion or apparent miracles.

Hardly any amount of oppression from above takes the heart out of a boy like oppression from his fellows.

The spiritual reading of a text must start with its literal sense. Otherwise we can easily make the text say what we think is convenient, useful for confirming us in our previous decisions, suited to our own patterns of thought.

No Reformer believed in private interpretation of Scripture, but they had no clear way to discern whose interpretation was the correct one. [They] quickly discovered that casting off Rome’s authority solved one problem but created another.

Literally speaking, there exist no mysteries, there are only truths; but truth becomes a mystery to him who does not understand it.

The heart of the liberal philosophy is a belief in the dignity of the individual, in his freedom to make the most of his capacities and opportunities according to his own lights, subject only to the proviso that he not interfere with the freedom of other individuals to do the same.

More often than you’d think, sheer persistence is the difference between success and failure.

Parts of the far left have gone so far in the political circle that they are now all but indistinguishable from the extreme right.

For when I look at these various anti-Christian truths, I simply discover that none of them are true. I discover that the true tide and force of all the facts flows the other way.

Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway.

Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a wrongdoer, or a mischief-maker; yet if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but under that name let him glorify God.

No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first encounter with the main enemy forces.

Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

See to it that no one makes a prey of you by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the universe, and not according to Christ.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

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