Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong

If you don't get it, the following meme may help.

Alan: Conservatives would love to be more charitable 
-- you know, like Jesus when he fed the multitude --
but, lamentably, the lazy, ne'r-do-well, parasitic slackers just don't deserve it.

"The Best, Imposed As A Norm, Becomes Evil," Trappist Monk, Fr. Thomas Merton

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes-evil.html

"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice.  The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization.  We are at last beginning to rediscover what perhaps men knew better in very ancient times, in primitive times before utopias were thought of: that liberty is bound up with imperfection, and that limitations, imperfections, errors are not only unavoidable but also salutary. The best is not the ideal.  Where what is theoretically best is imposed on everyone as the norm, then there is no longer any room even to be good.  The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil.”  

"Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander,” by Trappist monk, Father Thomas Merton

"The best, imposed as a norm, becomes evil."

More Merton Quotes

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/04/merton-best-imposed-as-norm-becomes.html

"Thomas Merton: Adolph Eichmann, Sanity And Normality"

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/07/thomas-merton-adolf-eichmann-sanity-and.html

Thomas Merton And Anne McCaffrey Describe The Fatal Flaw Of "Conservative" "Christians" (... Who Are Neither)   https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/04/thomas-merton-and-anne-mccaffrey.html

Eichmann, Merton, Galbraith, G.K. Chesterton And The Current Generation Of Pharisees

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/adolf-eichmann-thomas-merton-john.html

"The Hard, Central Truth Of Contemporary Conservatism"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/obamacare-and-hard-central-truth-of.html

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https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christians-only-believe-in.html    

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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-pharisees-are-always-with-us-heres.html

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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/jesus-fingers-hypocrisy-of-religious.html

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http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/04/compendium-of-best-pax-posts-on.html

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