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Positive and Negative Morality
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A vast amount of nonsense is talked against negative and destructive things. The silliest sort of progressive complains of negative morality, and
G.K. Chesterton Sightings, Week Ending 9/3/2010
A life-sized statue of Chesterton is going up in Ponchatoula, Louisiana.
Chesterton was quoted in an article on Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally.
GKC was
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The Pagan Christ: False Christianity Growing in Teens
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A few weeks ago when I brought up paganism, I made the remark that even Jesus Christ can be a pagan god.
Believing in Yourself is Madness
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Thoroughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true.
Once I remember
G.K. Chesterton sightings for the week ending 8/27/2010
A new Chestertonian revolution blog has appeared, called “Reforming the Line.” I highly suggest you start checking it out by reading “The Emancipation of
Why We Should Burn the Koran (and not stop there)
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By now many of you have heard of Dove World Outreach Center in Florida’s “Burn a Koran Day.” Condemnation of the very
The Danger of Having Two Heads (or ideals)
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I’m going to try to compensate for writer’s block with a catchy video.
Tip o’ the hat to the Chesterton and
Arms and the Child
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It would be too high and hopeful a compliment to say that the world is becoming absolutely babyish. For its chief weak-mindedness
G.K. Chesterton Sightings, Week Ending 8/20/2010
The Man Who Was Thursday is back in the news, with a photo of the actors in the remake that mocks the war on
The Revolution of One: GKC on Christian Socialism
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This is another long post from Chesterton. This fragment was never published until it appeared in his biography
G.K. Chesterton Sightings, Week Ending 8/13/2010
Look! on the left side of the Creative Minority Report blog – someone’s got G.K. Chesterton shirts for sale! Oh, wait, that’s our ad
Laugh at the Atheists, but Beware the Pagans
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A few weeks ago I had written a post here on why atheism is not a threat, but I had not
What is Right with the World
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This article was written in 1910, and refers to Chesterton’s book “What’s Wrong with the World” written that
G.K. Chesterton Sightings, Week Ending 8/6/2010
First off, there’s a big Chesterton shindig in MD this week, at the American Chesterton Society’s ChesterTEN conference. Pics and videos on Facebook! Apparently
Why Are We Here?
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What makes less ’sense’:
A Christian Pirate
A Christian Samurai
or a Christian Financial Planner
G.K. Chesterton wrote in Orthodoxy: “Christianity even when watered down
The Fixed Ideal and the Eternal Revolution
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A strict rule is not only necessary for ruling; it is also necessary for rebelling. This fixed and familiar ideal
G.K. Chesterton Sightings for the Week Ending July 30, 2010
Other than the sudden increase in G.K. Chesterton shirts on this site, there hasn’t been a great deal of activity.
The Telegraph leads off a
The Wind and the Trees (and the Revolution)
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I am sitting under tall trees, with a great wind boiling like surf about the tops of them, so that their
G.K. Chesterton Internet Sightings for the Week Ending July 23, 2010
First off, much thanks to Lisa Hendey of CatholicMom for posting an interview with me about Uncle Chestnut.
At the little restaurant where G.K. Chesterton and
In Defense of an Artist
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M. Night Shyamalan has been getting a lot of flak for his movies – again. A recent video has been circulating
On Being the Master of Your Own Economy
In response to an advertisement with the slogan, “Be the Master of Your Own Economy”
Why Atheism Is Not A Threat
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Last year, Joss Whedon created a moderate stir when he gave speech in response to receiving the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement
Too Simple to Be True, or The Sterility of Atheism
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We have had during the last few centuries a series of extremely simple religions; each indeed trying to be more simple
G.K. Chesterton Sightings, Week Ending July 16, 2010
This is the first edition of a new feature here at Eternal Revolution – links to mentions of G.K. Chesterton around the Internet.
This week, the
Merchant vs. Marketplace: A Microcapitalist Distinction
What is the difference between a marketplace and a retail store, and why you should care
Natural Selection: I Do Not Think it Means What You Think it Means
Eugenicists are back! But who are the feeble-minded of society that ought to be eliminated?
How Women Wrecked the World
A great many ills of our current world can be placed squarely on the shoulders of women. Or rather, on the fact that they who supported our world shrugged off their noble role
Introducing Smith & Wayne
I’ve encountered a pair of revolutionary characters who expressed an interest in writing for Eternal Revolution. I accepted, for as my regular readers know I
The Methuselahite, or, The Modern Pagan
G.K. Chesterton stumbles on the one-word summary of all modern paganism
Modern Prophets, and the Ignorance Thereof
Looking at the old testament of the Bible, it seems like there were a lot more prophets among the people than in modern times. Such
A Universal Church of Commerce
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I’ve been reading Chesterton’s manifesto of Distributism, An Outline of Sanity, and can’t help but notice the distopia he predicted for
How ‘Atlas’ Dropped the Ball
Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (among other works) is on the rise in popularity in the wake of the governments bailout of large businesses. During the
The Fallacy of Success (Guest Blogger: G.K. Chesterton)
There has appeared in our time a particular class of books and articles which I sincerely and solemnly think may be called the silliest ever
Microcapitalist Manifesto PDF Edition
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“Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.”
Confessions of a Video Game Shopaholic
At the request of a fellow blogger, Gabe Taviano, via twitter, I’ve decided to go into detail about my rather unusual video game addiction.
Gabe (aka
A Gun to Your Head
Here’s a bit of prophecy – the world WILL end in your lifetime.
One way or another, your life will end. Existence, as you know it
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