Heretics edition by G K Chesterton Catholic Way Publishing Literature Fiction eBooks
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HERETICS
G. K. CHESTERTON
— A Classic!
— Includes Illustrations by 18th Century artist, William Turner
— Includes an Active Table of Contents and NCX Navigation
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ISBN-13 978-1-78379-072-2
Nothing more strangely indicates an enormous and silent evil of modern society than the extraordinary use which is made nowadays of the word "orthodox." In former days the heretic was proud of not being a heretic. It was the kingdoms of the world and the police and the judges who were heretics. He was orthodox. He had no pride in having rebelled against them; they had rebelled against him. The armies with their cruel security, the kings with their cold faces, the decorous processes of State, the reasonable processes of law—all these like sheep had gone astray. The man was proud of being orthodox, was proud of being right. If he stood alone in a howling wilderness he was more than a man; he was a church. He was the centre of the universe; it was round him that the stars swung. All the tortures torn out of forgotten hells could not make him admit that he was heretical. But a few modern phrases have made him boast of it. He says, with a conscious laugh, "I suppose I am very heretical," and looks round for applause. The word "heresy" not only means no longer being wrong; it practically means being clear-headed and courageous. The word "orthodoxy" not only no longer means being right; it practically means being wrong. All this can mean one thing, and one thing only. It means that people care less for whether they are philosophically right. For obviously a man ought to confess himself crazy before he confesses himself heretical. The Bohemian, with a red tie, ought to pique himself on his orthodoxy. The dynamiter, laying a bomb, ought to feel that, whatever else he is, at least he is orthodox.
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Heretics edition by G K Chesterton Catholic Way Publishing Literature Fiction eBooks
I have just begun a journey of reading G.K. Chesterton. I would have begun with this book anyway. I seem to live in a world that avoids looking at itself critically. We live in a age of journalism so filled with political correctness it has forgotten what makes truth so necessary. There are truths and standards that are ageless. To see how culture fails to address the wrongs it creates takes clear thinking, and a freedom to express what needs to be seen. I have met so many people lost in present day values it never even thinks to look at them critically. If we do not get back to truth and morality we will lose our value of human beings, and our ability to think rationally. Like all of Chesterton's insights this book could have been written yesterday. Read this book and look at the world from a rational critique that questions the liberal values you swallow so easily.Product details
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A great book by one of my favorites, a true intellectual and incredible wit.
I have just begun a journey of reading G.K. Chesterton. I would have begun with this book anyway. I seem to live in a world that avoids looking at itself critically. We live in a age of journalism so filled with political correctness it has forgotten what makes truth so necessary. There are truths and standards that are ageless. To see how culture fails to address the wrongs it creates takes clear thinking, and a freedom to express what needs to be seen. I have met so many people lost in present day values it never even thinks to look at them critically. If we do not get back to truth and morality we will lose our value of human beings, and our ability to think rationally. Like all of Chesterton's insights this book could have been written yesterday. Read this book and look at the world from a rational critique that questions the liberal values you swallow so easily.
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