"Now it is very right to rebuke our own race or religion for falling short of our own standards and ideals. But it is absurd to pretend that they fell lower than the other races and religions that professed the very opposite standards and ideals. There is a very real sense in which the Christian is worse than the heathen, the Spaniard worse than the Red Indian, or even the Roman potentially worse than the Carthaginian. But there is only one sense in which he is worse; and that is not in being positively better. The Christian is only worse because it is his business to be better."
--G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 1925

I thought this kind of social inferiority complex was a recent phenomenon. Even in the 20’s there were people thinking this way. Interesting.

“But it is absurd to pretend that they fell lower than the other races and religions that professed the very opposite standards and ideals”. Yes, it is absurd.

I heart G.K.C.