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August Aphorisms #11
The world’s favorite way to curse is to praise. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorisms #10
The postmodern vision of peace: If nothing is worth fighting for, then nobody will fight. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorisms #9
Karl Barth sometimes tempts me to imagine that I’m talking about God when I’m talking about theology in a loud voice. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorism #8
Strange times: We diet to narrow our waists, but we think our sexual desires fixed and unalterable. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorism #7
The cultural revolution of the Sixties was brewing in the Fifties. Bourgeois hypocrisy was no longer sincere. Discrete winks were on their way to head shaking nods. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorism #6
Let’s not kid ourselves. Vices leave lasting scars. Repentance cauterizes; it does not erase. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorism #5
Some people are so lucky that they are indifferent to the good fortune luck provides. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorism #4
Death may punctuate, but life’s the sentence. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorisms #3
Stanley Fish wears fancy spurs, but he never rides outside the circus ring. . . . . Continue Reading »
August Aphorisms #2
A lesson of modernity: The brutalities of ignorance are not as extreme and destructive as the inhumanities of theory. . . . . Continue Reading »
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