Finished Reading “Heretics”

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  "G. K. Chesterton, the "Prince of Paradox," is at his witty best in this collection of twenty essays and articles from the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on  "heretics" - those who pride themselves on their superiority to Christian views - Chesterton appraises prominent figures who fall into that category from the literary and art worlds... those who hold incomplete and inadequate views about "life, the universe, and everything." He is, in short, criticizing all that host of non-Christian views of reality, as he demonstrated in his follow-up book Orthodoxy. The book is both an easy read and a difficult read. But he manages to demonstrate, among other things, that our new 21st century heresies are really not new because he himself deals with most of them." (Goodreads)

A Lesson On Complaining

A horse can’t pull while kicking,
This fact we merely mention,
And he can’t kick while pulling,
Which is our chief contention.

Let us imitate the good horse,
And lead a life that’s fitting;
Just pull an honest load, and then
There will be no time for kicking.

(Anonymous)

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