Technology 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 restless busy nature of the world, this I declare is at the root of pain.

In a word, the true morality of Christianity is love. And love does admittedly run counter to self-seeking—it is an exodus out of oneself, and yet this is precisely the way in which man comes to himself.

We don’t want to go back to tomorrow, we want to move forward.

We may have equality of opportunity, but if the only opportunity is to be equal, it is not opportunity.

The Sacrament [of Confession] gives us a double dose of what we need: forgiveness of our sins and training in humility.

In short, [Supreme Court justices] are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.

I was walking around one day trying to figure out what the meaning of life was. I figured it was something that would come to me easily while walking around, but I didn’t actually figure it out until I sat down.

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Humans see the comprehensibility of the world as evidence of a comprehending creator.

In the last instance, men must act on what they believe right, not on what they believe probable.

In so far as religion is gone, reason is going. For they are both of the same primary and authoritative kind. They are both methods of proof which cannot themselves be proved.

They tell you sex has become a mess because it was hushed up. But for the last twenty years it has not been. It has been chattered about all day long. Yet it is still in a mess.

Freedom engenders private animosities, but despotism gives birth to general indifference.

I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor.

The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem.

I believe there’s some explanation for this universe, which you might call God.

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

A business which can bring itself to the point where it attracts the attention of money should be able to continue on its own feet without being financed.

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

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