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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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If any one teaches otherwise and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching which accords with godliness, he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing. . . .

Part of the change we have to make is accepting that in the years to come, faithful Christians may have to choose between being a good American and being a good Christian.

God is said to rejoice more over the penitent than over the innocent, because often penitents rise from sin more cautious, humble, and fervent.

When ‘the two become one’ in the covenant of marriage, the ‘one’ they become is so real that nine months later they might have to give it a name! The child embodies their covenant oneness.

I have attended public worship in all countries and with all sects and believe them all much better than no religion, though I have not thought myself obliged to believe all I heard.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

The object of a free and wise people should be so to balance parties, that from the weakness of all you may be governed by the moderation of the combined judgments of the whole, not tyrannized over by the blind passions of a few individuals.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Let us not forget that unity is a symptom of life; disunion is decay, a sure sign of being a corpse.

Materialists and madmen never have doubts.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

If God exists, then He must be outside the natural world, and therefore the tools of science are not the right ones to learn about Him.

The excesses and atrocities of organized religion have no bearing whatsoever on the existence of God, just as the threat of nuclear proliferation has no bearing on the question of whether E = mc^2.

‘Chance’ is nothing but an expression of human ignorance. We don’t know the reasons and causes and design of all things, because we are not God.

The nations which are favored by free institutions invariably find that their resources increase even more rapidly than their taxes.

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.

On the contrary, God foretold hardship upon hardship in this world until the end of time. And you want the Christian to be exempt from these troubles? Precisely because he is a Christian, he is destined to suffer more in this world.

No man can have a peaceful life who thinks too much about lengthening it.

For that is what truth is: conformity of thought to reality.

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