181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God

Chairman Mao Loves Ice Cream. In this episode, G.K. Chesterton on what happens when we abolish God, and the government becomes the god. We discuss “unalienable rights endowed by the Creator.” The language of freedom and rights belongs to the law. And we finish with Chesterton’s prompt to consider fraud.

SHOW NOTES:

Collected Works: Vol. XX https://www.chesterton.org/shop/vol-xx

THE HISTORY OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR - By Thucydides 431 BC https://www.gutenberg.org/files/7142/7142-h/7142-h.htm

Lecture 65: Christendom in Dublin https://www.chesterton.org/lecture-65/

Bourbons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Bourbon

Bolsheviks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolsheviks

Never Forget What Joe Biden Did to Clarence Thomas https://rumble.com/vaz2r1-never-forget-what-joe-biden-did-to-clarence-thomas.html

Crowder gun show video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-UElS4U7I

156: Pastoral Debrief on Civil Disobedience and the Christian https://www.1517.org/podcasts/banned-books/156-debrief

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