Bruce Charlton's Notions

* The Left has triumphed over recent decades by ratcheting incremental change in societal ideas - such that each new move can be seen as h...

* From an essay by Stratford Caldecott - H/T Dale Nelson. http://www.secondspring.co.uk/otherreligions/scaldecott3.htm * The admitte...

* It is regarded (among rigorous rational people) as bad practice to use ad hominem arguments - attacking the man rather than his argumen...

* I have recently spent a week in Stratford upon Avon which is... Shakespeare town. There is no other place of its size in Britain which...

* It's an interesting exercise, because it renders most sentences containing 'equal' (or equality) as very obviously false. ...

* In essence - should Christians demonstrate their allegiance - by wearing a Cross, for example? Yes, they should. * Partly for rea...

* Not, surely, to  scour the world in search of genuine poor to whom we can then give alms. Not, surely, to  import  genuine poor in va...

* Christian evangelism is often unwelcome, and angrily rejected - which may seem surprising, given the desperate state of people. But the ...

* Human societies with very high mortality during childhood an early adulthood over many generations will be (relatively) low IQ societie...

* Modern Leftist elites are instead primarily self-destroying - only secondarily (and contingently) self-interested - even when 'self...

* I have been visiting some old country houses which were inhabited by Roman Catholic families during the period of the 1500s and 1600s whe...

* For those readers in the USA who find me excessively pessimistic about the prospects for Christianity, from where I am situated  - Fro...

* I was thinking about whose newly-published online writings I most look forward to reading - and I came up with the name of Mark Hackard....

* From Heretics by G.K Chesterton (1905): At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living."...

* This is pure autobiography... IF the argument is about the reality of a deity - arguments such as the Five Ways of Aquinas, for exampl...

* From Heretics by GK Chesterton - 1905: Many of the most brilliant intellects of our time have urged us to ... self-conscious snatchin...

* This blog will take a pause (with perhaps a few intermittent postings) for a while; intended to allow me a pause for re-creation, unstru...

* I used to be a keen socialist, from age about 13-18 - and as a teen I read fairly widely in the British tradition: William Morris (very ...

* http://notionclubpapers.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/why-read-tolkiens-notion-club-papers.html *

* It is easy to become a theist (a believer in the reality of 'god' - not specifically nor necessarily the Christian God). Indeed,...

*   http://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/05/counting-chinarsquos-christians  (Or see article below) This sounds like very good new...