Evangelical Christians: "Too True To Be Good"

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

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"Evangelical Support Of Trump Will Be An Indictment Against Its Validity," Fr. Richard Rohr

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/evangelical-support-of-trump-will-be.html

Compendium Of Best Pax Posts Concerning The Coming Collapse Of Evangelicalism

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/01/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-concerning.html

"Christian" "Conservatives" Are Neither Christian Nor Conservative

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/christian-conservatives-are-neither.html

"The Deepening Crisis In Evangelical Christianity"

Support For Trump Degrades Christian Witness 

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-deepening-crisis-in-evangelical.html

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https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/07/evangelicals-lack-of-faith-is-single.html

Evangelicals' Satanic Surrender To Trump: Bend Over, Clasp Ankles, Apply K-Y

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/evangelicals-abject-surrender-to-trump.html

"The Sermon On The Mount" As Envisioned By "Christian" "Conservatives"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-sermon-on-mount-as-envisioned-by.html

Cartoon: American Evangelicals Join The Last Supper

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/05/cartoon-american-evangelicals-join-last.html

Corrupted By Grifters And Charlatans, Evangelicalism Has Devolved Into A Hate Group

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/01/corrupted-by-grifters-and-charlatans.html

Christian Activist: When They Attack White Supremacy, They Attack Christianity

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/christian-activist-when-they-attack.html

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

More Merton Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html