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Eugenics never recovered from the news of what had been carried out under its banner in Hitler's Germany. In truth, a number of people--including G.K. Chesterton, H.L. Mencken, Walter Lippmann and Clarence Darrow--had ridiculed and debunked eugenic theories well before the horrors of the Holocaust occurred and became widely known...
According to Chesterton, tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything. Chesterton meant that as a critique of tolerance. But it captures nicely the upside of unbelief: where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution. When it is believed that on your religion hangs the fate of your immortal soul, the Inquisition follows easily; when it is believed that religion is a breezy consumer preference, religious tolerance flourishes easily. After all, we don't persecute people for their taste in cars. Why for their taste in gods...
...time when religion is a preference and piety a form of eccentricity suggesting fanaticism, Chesterton needs revision: tolerance is not just the virtue of people who do not believe in anything; tolerance extends only to people who don't believe in anything. Believe in something, and beware. You may not warrant presidential-level attack, but you'll make yourself suspect should you dare enter the naked public square...
...Scout cookies when you throw them out in the yard. If the manufacturer were given the money to produce an attractive package with top-quality cookies, the Girl Scouts wouldn't be able to keep up with the orders. Stop living in a dream world, girls. RONALD C. NEETZ Chesterton, Indiana...
...unfolded with such grotesque distortions of what most Americans think of as normal justice that the system itself ended up in the dock. Verdicts are now coming down, and they are not pretty. From police irregularities to the issue of trial by jury itself, what the British writer G.K. Chesterton called "the awful court of judgment" has acquired a modern spin on the adjective...