February 28, 2008
I’ve started doing video blogging on YouTube, if any cares to look, as ‘CrankyYoungCatholic’.
I will continue the ChesterCast, on schedule of course, and the ChesterCast will continue to be entirely readings from Chesterton, with no opinion but his aired.
However, I also have opinions. This is a sample of my opinions as the Cranky Young Catholic, the only time such a thing will ever be put into ChesterCast. From now on, as before, everything will be Chesterton’s words, and not mine.
If you enjoy this video, I would be overjoyed if you watched other videos from me as the Cranky Young Catholic on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/user/TrentonZero . The Cranky Young Catholic talks about Catholicism, Christianity, Apologetics, and the so-called New Atheism.
This sample is about the slanderer, Christopher Hitchens, and has already stormed up quite a pleasant little hornet’s nest as his fans come out to defend him.
February 26, 2008
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Heretics — chestercast @ 6:01 am
“We may put the matter in this way. The main point of modern life is not that the Alhambra ballet has its place in life. The main point, the main enormous tragedy of modern life, is that Mr. McCabe has not his place in the Alhambra ballet….We are miserable moderns and rationalists. We do not merely love ourselves more than we love duty; we actually love ourselves more than we love joy.”
February 17, 2008
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Heretics — chestercast @ 10:43 pm
“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind of one man, but bad literature tells us the mind of many men. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. It does much more than that, it tells us the truth about its readers; and, oddly enough, it tells us this all the more the more cynical and immoral be the motive of its manufacture.”
February 12, 2008
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Heretics — chestercast @ 5:59 pm
“It is not fashionable to say much nowadays of the advantages of the small community. We are told that we must go in for large empires and large ideas. There is one advantage however, n the small state, the city, or the village, which only the willfully blind can overlook. The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us….There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.”
February 4, 2008
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Heretics — chestercast @ 4:43 am
“Of this great spiritual coherence, independent of external circumstances, or of race, or of any obvious physical thing, Ireland is the most remarkable example. Rome conquered nations, but Ireland has conquered races. The Norman has gone there and become Irish, the Spaniard has gone there and become Irish, even the bitter soldier of Cromwell has gone there and become Irish. Ireland, which did not exist even politically, has been stronger than all the races that existed scientifically…Nationality in its weakness has been stronger than ethnology in its strength. Five triumphant races have been absorbed, have been defeated by a defeated nationality.”
