Wow, what an incredible statement. It’s kinda like how he begins Orthodoxy, with how we used to argue about the best way to clean a dirty man, but now we argue about whether that man is even dirty or not.

Rheinhold Niebuhr once said that original sin is the only Christian doctrine that can be proved empirically; I would definitely have to agree with both him and GKC. Man has always been a rather disgusting individual, and the inability to recognize this most likely lies in one’s own filth.

A huge part of The Everlasting Man is how human beings have always considered certain things wrong and certain things right no matter what the liberal anthropology teacher says nowadays. Family and faith are the two things that have remained profoundly important throughout human history, regardless of the sometimes strange cultural traits that people can have, some things always are the same.

Atheists, God-less societies always end the same way: tyranny.

Chesterton is so right that the majority of critics of the Church reside in this in-between world of criticism where they condemn religious people for believing in things like morality and charity and chastity…but then insist that people follow their brand of morality (Relativism), their ideas of charity (welfare), and their kind of chastity (abstaining for the sake of “Green”).

Thanks for putting stuff like this up. You are a very interesting person.