Hatred for the Other...

The Lost One was today, reminded of C.S. Lewis' admonition not to hate those who are our enemies. What brought the wise man's advice back into mind? This article.

Via Ace (Who else?)

Bonus: Ronald Reagan, was there anything he didn't know?

Bonus to the Bonus: Check out the quote from Buckley:

We deem it the central revelation of Western experience, that man cannot ineradicably stain himself, for the wells of regeneration are infinitely deep.

Replace "Western" with "Christian" (as any who study history will tell you it is often correct to do) and we get quite the profound truth.

C. S. Lewis' (The Man!) Definitive Response to the Nanny State.

The Lost One saw this in the comments at Ace's and had to steal it because of his Man-love for all thing's Lewis:

"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 busybodies. 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 consciences." - CS Lewis

The Lost One knew there was a reason he loves that man.