How have I not heard of this guy before? Nicolás Gómez Dávila ("Don Colacho") was a 20th-century Colombian thinker and little-known author who very much seems like our kind of guy. Read his bio here.
He is best known for his collection of Pascal-style "Aphorisms" which I recently encountered for the first time. They include thoughts like the following:
#2,982 In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.
and
#2,967 No one is more insufferable than a man who does not suspect, once in a while, that he might not be right.
Enjoy,
LC
He is best known for his collection of Pascal-style "Aphorisms" which I recently encountered for the first time. They include thoughts like the following:
#2,982 In their childish and vain attempt to attract the people, the modern clergy give socialist programs the function of being schemes for putting the Beatitudes into effect.
The trick behind it consists in reducing to a collective structure external to the individual an ethical behavior that, unless it is individual and internal, is nothing.
The modern clergy preach, in other words, that there is a social reform capable of wiping out the consequences of sin.
From which one can deduce the pointlessness of redemption through Christ.
and
#2,967 No one is more insufferable than a man who does not suspect, once in a while, that he might not be right.
Enjoy,
LC
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