April 12th, 2007

"Collaboration with power, whether Communist or not, is always ruinous for the church. If the church exists, if it is to have legitimacy in the eyes of the people, it must always stand erect as a counter-power to a political power."
- Jacques Ellul, "Lech Walesa and the Social Force of Christianity" (p 5)

"The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral about it is to avoid all mention of it. By this sort of logic, nudism is the best compromise among different styles of dress. The secularist version of "pluralism" amounts to theological nudism."
- Joseph Sobran "Pensees: Notes for the Reactionary of Tomorrow" National Review, Dec. 31, 1985 (p 48)