PAST:
“But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.”
- OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, “The Soldier’s Faith”, 1895
PRESENT:
[…] it's irrelevant to the liberal misconception that in order to have faith and to follow, you must have tangibility. Ladies and gentlemen, this is why atheism and liberalism, sadly, go hand in hand. This is why atheism and liberalism are mental disorders.
Liberals need tangibility in order to have security. Liberals need tangibility to feel complete. Liberals need tangibility to be able to follow someone.
Conservatives have faith. Conservatives know without seeing. Conservatives know without touching. Conservatives believe with their minds and their hearts, rather than with their heads and their hands.
- From RepublicanVet's blog, thanx to NonnyMouse at Crooks & Liars
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
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It is extraordinary how commentators like Republican Vet recapitulate the 18th century philosophies of Johann Gottfried von Herder, Johann Hamann, and Joseph de Maistre- right down to the seething Sturm und Drang. There cannot be a better statement of the American Counter Enlightenment than this. If you change "Conservatives" to "Germans" you have a statement that could have been written by Hamann himself at the time of the American Revolution.
Lol. Reality means 18th Century? Lol.
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