Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Mark Shea Asks

"[Did you] ever notice that people who continually proclaim themselves 'rational' are as incapable of reason as people who continually proclaim themselves 'devout' are incapable of devotion?"

As a parenthetical aside to this piece.

1 comment:

IlĂ­on said...

Yes, I've noticed that. I suspect that for both groups the respective words serve essentially as magic talismans (and thus, don't need to mean anything).