Archive for January, 2007

I Just Think It Should Be Something Other Than A Spiritual Flu Shot

Allen January 26th, 2007

Again from Political Diary, we hear where Nancy Pelosi’s daughter, Alexandra has made a documentary for HBO called A Friend of God.

Quoting from the article, we find out that the younger Pelosi thinks religion can be a positive influence in life:

A once-lapsed Catholic herself, Ms. Pelosi now wants her two-month-old son to get in the habit of going to church at a young age. “There’s a lot of secular television that provides bad role models. It is important to expose your kid to religion, any religion, otherwise they’ll become uncharged, and those are the ones who may later in life fall into more extreme religions,” she told ABC News.

I fully believe in the importance of religion as well…

Of Robber Barons and the Tyranny of Busy Bodies

Allen January 26th, 2007

C. S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors. He had a grasp of human nature that more people should read. The Narnia series is a wonderful read (even for adults) and the Screwtape Letters are a classic.

I just read in OpinionJournal’s Political Diary a great quote from CS:

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busy-bodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.