by Kirk Spencer
I know there was no Twitter around when G.K. Chesterton was around But if there were, Im sure these tweets would be legit:
If there were no God, there would be no atheists[1]#EvolutionaryNotRevolutionaryEnough
Progress is Providence without God a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident based on an everlasting coincidence far more miraculous than a miracle[2] #RiddlesOfGodSolutionsOfMan
The modern world is a crowd of very rapid racing cars all brought to a standstill and stuck in a block of traffic[3] #AllSoupedUpAndNoPlaceToGo #ReasonRacingAroundWithoutReasons
My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday[4] #NeotonyCacophony #ForwardToSunday
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions[5] #SightMakeRight #CelebrityErrors #FallacyFashions
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.[6] #StreamOfThoughtPolution
Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now handed out wholesale or at least a reasonably cheap imitation[7] #CommodeCulture #PlasticPeople
An open mind is really a mark of foolishness, like an open mouth. Mouths and minds were made to open only in order to shut to shut it again on something solid[8] #DroolingBrains #MentalMouthBreathers
What is called matriarchy is simply moral anarchy, in which the mother alone remains fixed because all the fathers are fugitive and irresponsible.[9] #AnchorWoMan #AbsenteeDadee
Religious liberty means that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it[10] #FreedomFrom #SacredSilence
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried[11] #DontGiveUp #TheNarrowWay
[1] G. K. Chesterton Where All Roads Lead, 1922
[2] G. K. Chesterton (Wells and the World State What I Saw in America)
[3] G. K. Chesterton Illustrated London News, 5/29/26
[4] G. K. Chesterton New York Times Magazine, 2/11/23
[5] G. K. Chesterton 1930
[6] G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man, 1925
[7] G. K. Chesterton Commonwealth, 1933
[8] G. K. Chesterton Illustrated London News. October 10, 1908 and Autobiography. Collected Works Vol. 16, p. 212.
[9] G. K. Chesterton The Everlasting Man, CW II, p.186
[10] G. K. Chesterton Autobiography, 1937
[11] G. K. Chesterton Chapter 5, Whats Wrong With The World, 1910.