G.K. Chesterton
205Alps and Americas: Rome and Their Enemies
9 Sep 2024
41:07¶ 122
“Back to Chesterton. Chesterton looks at this in one of the chapters in The Everlasting Man and he says, “And we should be glad…”
43:35¶ 128
“But the idea that we should sympathize with the Roman demons, which is what their gods were, simply because they weren’t demanding child sacrifice…”
44:01¶ 129
“That’s a Roman Catholic convert move, which Chesterton was. I didn’t realize this until I read a biography of his wife a few years…”
83Baal and Astarte
13 Sep 2021
12:08¶ 57
“G.K. Chesterton, on the other hand, has a chapter or two in The Everlasting Man where he contrasts Carthage and Rome. Now, being a…”
13:01¶ 58
“Across the sea, however, was Carthage. These were Phoenicians. These were Canaanites. They sacrificed their children to Molech. Isn’t it a wonderful thing that…”
13:31¶ 59
“Gilbert, I think your perspective here is just a little bit warped. It’s one thing to recognize that, yes indeed, there are degrees of…”
81Choice and Children
30 Aug 2021
46:53¶ 150
“Hilariously wrong. He’ll let you know. He doesn’t pretend anything. You know he’s Roman Catholic. You know the time and place he lived. You…”
46:44¶ 147
“At least when you read Chesterton you know he’s going to be wrong on stuff.”
46:48¶ 148
“And loudly wrong about it, too.”
36Polytheism and Pluralism (part 2)
6 Sep 2020
13:09¶ 42
“I have not finished it because he got very heavy in his praise of Rome, because their pagan gods were better than Carthage’s pagan…”
13:27¶ 44
“No, because he wants to be able to smooth and slide out of pagan Rome to papal Rome…”
13:48¶ 48
“He needs to read it with the right mindset. His point is okay as far as it goes. Yes, the gods of Carthage devoured…”
8Man in the Cave
23 Feb 2020
24:22¶ 73
“Exactly. I mentioned earlier G.K. Chesterton’s book, The Everlasting Man, and the chapter “The Man in the Cave.” The point he makes is that…”
24:48¶ 75
“Monkeys did not begin pictures, and men finish them; Pithecanthropus did not draw a reindeer badly and Homo Sapiens draw it well. The higher…”
8:58¶ 36
“I think upfront I would like to recommend to everybody G.K. Chesterton’s book The Everlasting Man, and particularly the chapter “The Man in the…”