It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.
Gilbert K. ChestertonReligious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonA society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
Gilbert K. ChestertonLarge organization is loose organization. Nay, it would be almost as true to say that organization is always disorganization.
Gilbert K. ChestertonAnd my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.
Gilbert K. Chesterton