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Originally Posted by peter12
G.K. Chesterton
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You do seem like the Chesterton type.
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"...when he was charming, he was also deeply unserious and frivolous ... when he was apparently serious, he was really quite sinister (as in calling Nazism a form of Protestant heresy and Jews a species of conspicuous foreigner in England); and when he was posing as a theologian, he was doing little more than ventriloquizing John Henry Newman at his most “dogmatic.” For the time and hour in which he lived, “Chestertonianism” came to represent a minor but still important failure to meet a distinct moral challenge."
- Christopher Hitchens
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If you're combating the stereotype that you believe "old is good" I wouldn't quote a gifted writer but vapid theologian who died 100 years ago to make your point.