Anführungsstrich des Tages!

"We all know what a camel is, a horse as designed by a committee."
- John Oswalt

"If an English delegation came to sue for peace it must kneel before the German standard for it was a question here of a victory of the monarchy over democracy."
- Kaiser Wilhelm II

"Democracy is nothing but tyranny of the majorities, the most execrable tyranny of all because it rests neither on the authority of a religion, nor on the nobility of race, nor on the prerogatives of talent or property. Its foundation is numbers and its mask is the name of the people."
- Pierre Joseph Proudhon

"The road leading to the Hell of leftist radicalism is not only broad, it is also fast and steep. Under such circumstances the brakes rarely work."
- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

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Better to be secure under one king, than exposed to violence from twenty millions of monarchs, though oneself be one of them." - Herman Melville

"I still would prefer to live under a lion's paw than under the teeth of a thousand rats who are my fellow citizens."
- Voltaire

"God forbid that we should ever be so miserable as to sink into a Republic."
- New York Gazette and Weekly Mercury, April 23, 1770

"I will go farther, I have no hope that our union can subsist except in the form of an absolute monarchy."
- Gouverneur Morris writing to Nathanael Green in 1781


Saturday, August 22, 2015

Why the Creed?

"Some might ask today what is a creed despite it being, “very common today, even in a society that increasingly seeks to become creedless” (Schmidt, 2004, p. 386). Simply stated, “a creed is a brief authoritative doctrinal formula confessed within the Christian church. The term is from the Latin credo, ‘I believe’” (Taylor, 1983). St. Irenaeus (A.D. 180) of Gaul within his treatise Against Heresies said that Christians had a “rule of faith” (Schmidt, 2004, p. 387). Perhaps among the church’s greatest gifts to Christian society are in fact the major creeds which have been formulated as a reaction against the many heresies. The Apostle’s Creed (early second century) developed as a reaction against both Gnosticism and Montanism. The Nicene Creed (A.D. 325) developed as a reaction against The Arian heresy. The Creed of Chalcedon (A.D. 451); developed as a reaction against the attack on the “integrity of Christ’s person and the duality of his nature” (Noll, 2000, p. 81). Finally, the Athanasian Creed (seventh century), “has been widely accepted as a valid source of Christian belief” (Wiley, 1946, p. 31). For some, these creeds represent the only life clinging rocks barely visible in a stormy and creedless sea that is the church today."

                         - (College Paper) Rev. Robert C. Kopenski

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