With the recent tirade of FCC Chairman Michael Powell (the guy who has no problem letting a couple groups control all that you see and hear) over a boob and the whole Massachusetts thing, not to mention America’s bigger religious problem, I think the following quote should be burned into our brains.
“A large portion of the American populace espouses a moral code that can be accurately described as Puritanical. Although this code is wrapped in religious language, it is fundamentally a denial of the goodness of creation, finding the source of evil in material things of pleasure (as tobacco, alcohol, art, and so on) rather than in the disordered human will to misuse the good things nature affords us. The Puritans’ fondness for legal prohibitions as well as their presumption of their own moral superiority have given religion a bad name in America.”
— G.K. Chesterton
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