by Chris Alexion, Copyright February 21, 2006, all rights reserved. 301 views
"If you wanted to dissuade a man from drinking his tenth whisky you would slap him on the back and say, 'Be a man.' No one who wished to dissuade a crocodile from eating his tenth explorer would slap it on the back and say, 'Be a crocodile.' For we have no notion of a perfect crocodile; no allegory of a whale expelled from his whaley Eden. If a whale came up to us and said: 'I am a new kind of whale; I have abandoned whalebone,' we should not trouble. But if a man came up to us (as many will soon come up to us) to say, 'I am a new kind of man. I am the super-man. I have abandoned mercy and justice'; we should answer, 'Doubtless you are new, but you are not nearer to the perfect man, for he has been already in the mind of God. We have fallen with Adam and we shall rise with Christ; but we would rather fall with Satan than rise with you.'"
- GKC, "Why I Believe in Christianity"
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