Author Topic: 'Heretics', by GK Chesterton (Read 12961 times)

gladius_veritatis · « **on:** June 20, 2010, 11:59:46 AM »

This was written well before he converted, but is full of excellent, insightful, and humorous material. Enjoy...

http://www.pagebypagebooks.com/Gilbert_K_Chesterton/Heretics/

spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #1 on:** June 24, 2010, 02:33:24 AM »

I am so sorry for having hated Chesterton so much without having read any of his works simply because TIA called him sth like a communist. This book is a gem thank you GV.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #2 on:** June 24, 2010, 03:05:59 AM »

Don't be sorry. He was an aggressive and unapologetic fan of the French Revolution and it wouldn't surprise me if he is going to go to hell for that alone. Any Catholic should know that the French Revolution is Satanic, and Chesterton knew about secret societies. This guy was the Stephen Colbert of his time, in my opinion. A plant and tool of the media whose job was to break apart the Catholic sense of people.

I also think his constant use of humor is inappropriate and almost the exact opposite of how a Catholic should teach and speak. Hence the Stephen Colbert comparison. At least Chesterton's use of irony wasn't as incomprehensibly baroque as Colbert's, but it was on the way there.

I don't understand why more people can't see through him. Have they read The Everlasting Man? What real Catholic writes in this exuberant, complacent, self-satisfied way? It's like three hundred pages of Chesterton talking about how he wants to run through fields and leap about because of his love of Christ... It's the most banal, sickeningly, falsely optimistic thing I've ever read. It's almost like a prediction of Novus Ordo "bliss," of all these modern Catholics who are happy as pigs in the mud in Jew America. You know, the kind of Catholic who is satisfied just saying they love Christ and then turning their mind off totally to reality or to what is happening in society and the Church.

Raoul76 · « **Reply #3 on:** June 24, 2010, 03:16:09 AM »

The French Revolution and the Irish, GK Chesterton --

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Robespierre talked even more about God than about the Republic because he cared even more about God than about the Republic. Danton talked even more about France than about the Republic because he cared even more about France than about the Republic. Marat talked more about Humanity than either, because that physician (though himself somewhat needing a physician) really cared about it.

What's Wrong with the World, GK Chesterton --

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"Or again,
they will tell you that there is going to be a social revolution,
a great rising of the poor against the rich; but they never rub it
in that France made that magnificent attempt, unaided, and that we
and all the world allowed it to be trampled out and forgotten."

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spouse of Jesus · « **Reply #4 on:** June 24, 2010, 04:06:16 AM »

Ok Ok I admit that I was mistaken. Raoul what you say always seems to change the way I think!