Oh my goodness, let me guess: everyone he likes will be exonerated and deeply grateful, everyone he doesn’t like will be hounded until they resign in disgrace, and morons will applaud the incredible integrity that magically made the entire state absolutely subservient to him.

There is such a thing as over-prescription and over-diagnosis in the current moment, but this is an extraordinarily irresponsible thing for a pastor to say regarding real, mental health conditions and neurological divergences.

I am going to enslave John MacArthur.

Your idiocy helped create this world , don’t you dare give people sententious little lectures. You’re lucky you’re not in prison

mine would have come out clean no shade

That part when the Grand Inquisitor turns to the reader, winks, and says 'I know you're only reading this bit, extracted in a textbook, and I'm here to tell you it's okay to tell people you read the whole book, it's fine. Also it doesn't count as gay that Jesus kissed me.'

The conservative impulse to find reassuring antiquity and moral solidity in increasingly recent and forgettable products of mass culture. Always fascinating.

The thing about George Bernard Shaw's mockery of Chesterton - calling him Immenso Champernoon, debating circles around him, etc - is that Shaw, being a real person with all the temptations to kindness this entails, was not nearly cruel enough.

I believe in Benedict XVI’s “smaller, purer Church,” by which I mean closing the door to every Reddit dork who sees Catholicism as nothing more than a vehicle of revenge against modernity.

If you’re antisemitic before the 1930s/40s (like GKC) you’ve got some bad opinions and are in that area awful

If you’re antisemitic post-Holocaust (like the admin), the knowledge of the Holocaust is the context of your antisemitism. For these people, the evil is the attraction.

I'm at the candy store, Caleb Winn, would you like anything from there?