“We look on past ages with condescension, as a mere preparation for us… but what if we are a mere after-glow of them?”  -JG Farrell

 

I would like my kid to go to a school where they paddle but I don't think that's a thing.

 

It’s unnerving how many things lasted from Christ (or longer) until twelve minutes ago.

 

The death penalty.

Spare the rod spoil the child.

Marriage being lifelong.

Marriage being exclusively hetero.

Swift criminal punishments.

Etc

 

"No doubt Christianity has much to answer for in its long history, but the sight of an age-long tradition treated in this way filled me with disgust. It is one thing for traditions to die out of themselves; it is quite another for them to be killed by men who think they know everything, by men whose vengeance extends even to the past, even to the dead."  –Theodore Dalrymple