"We follow Nietzsche and choose Dionysus, not like a few of his spiritual heirs by accepting the savagery revealed by Euripides' The Bacchae, but by accepting a cheap interpretation of freedom -- the freedom to say what you think and think what you please, the freedom to do what you want, the freedom to have it your way, the worldly freedom which, in the final analysis, is the sin against the Holy Spirit, unforgivable precisely because those who commit it repudiate the Spirit that would enable them to recognize the hell they are fashioning for themselves." - Gil Bailie
"The modern self has been an attempt to enjoy the relative psychological poise and social autonomy that is born of a life of prayer and sacrifice, but to enjoy this emancipation without the devotions that made it possible." - Gil Bailie
"The first stages of neo-pagan revivals are sometimes celebrated by the very people who will most ardently oppose them at a latter stage, and as these two stages are themselves not easily distinguished, it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between a Christian who is getting ready to throw down the gauntlet and one who is getting ready to throw in the towel. But sooner or later, the moment comes when one has to decide which it's going to be." - Gil Bailie
"Post-Christianity goes by the name of postmodernism for two reasons. First, the Christian element in Western culture has become so attenuated that it could be eliminated without explicit reference to it, and, secondly, because it represents the quintessentially modern slight-of-hand by which the Christian element in western culture was overlooked -- even in its most explicit disavowal." - Gil Bailie
[Quotes gleaned from the now-dormant Cornerstone Forum "Daily Quote."]
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