Soul Food: Week of October 6, 2024

This week’s respectfully offered daily meditations:

Sunday: Trying to separate politics from theology in these days of woke abortion, homelessness & open borders policies is like trying to ignore those bumps in crunchy peanut butter.

Monday: Radicals, blind guides & demagogues “eat & drink in the same type of echo chamber where they receive news.” Paraphrase of Prof. Jonathan Turley

Tuesday: The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for & against the same thing at the same time. Abe Lincoln

Wednesday: I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. Evelyn Beatrice Hall citing Voltaire’s beliefs.

Thursday: Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. Silence Dogood, Benjamin Franklin

Friday: My freedom of speech stimulates your freedom to tell me I’m wrong. P.J. O’Rourke

Saturday: However … The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre & causing panic … The question in every case is whether the words are used in such circumstances & are of such a nature as to create a clear & present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. Oliver Wendell Holmes

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