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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers. The only true free-thinker is he whose intellect is as much free from the future as from the past.



G.K. Chesterton

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I totally agree, we only have the present and when we get rid of past chains or expectations of a better future and we just enjoy the present time with all our senses, we are really free.

This book will help you:

Eckhart Tolle′s "The power of now"
Reply:The way I interpret this quotation is that it says if we are really courageous, we will not bully or attack the weaker and older, however, we should correct the youth who are in the wrong direction, and that, we should defy the wrong teachings in the future as much as we defy the old myths handed down from the past.
Reply:It's long.
Reply:Sound right. Sounds like Ron Paul
Reply:As usual, G.K. states an uncommon truth in a startling way.



Let's consider some model cases. These days, people are beating up grandmother in the form of attacks on Christianity and theism. Not only does it not take courage, but you can win all sorts of plaudits from the world.



The critics of Christianity fail to take account of how much our thinking depends on Judaeo-Christian ideas like equality and human rights. Typically, atheists have little understanding of the scientific facts that point to theism, e.g., the fact that things that begin to exist must have a cause, including the universe itself, which began 13 billion years ago in the Big Bang.



What are the tyrannies and superstititions that it takes real courage to defy? A good example is multiculturalism and diversity, which claims that cultures that establish freedom and human rights are no better than cultures that demand women wear burqas, require female circumcision, and decree capital punishment for apostasy.



Another is Darwinism; no criticism will be tolerated of the claim that human intelligence developed from a pool of chemicals by a series of freakishly improbable events.



You can get kicked out of most American universities for committing heresy against secular humanism by speaking up against multiculturalism and diversity or Darwinism.



Cheers,

Bruce
Reply:Smart man, good writer. The quote is right on the money.
Reply:Very thought provoking, and I strive to be a true free-thinker

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