Jonathan Emerson-Pierce
@logocentrist.bsky.social
Former atheist and communist exploring history, culture, politics, science & leadership via Christian theology & philosophy🕊️🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺🇩🇪.
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
December 22, 2025 at 1:06 AM
"The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
- St. Augustine
- St. Augustine
December 21, 2025 at 11:36 PM
"There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future."
- St. Augustine
- St. Augustine
“People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
December 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
December 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.”
- Carl Jung
- Carl Jung
At its peak, socialism governed roughly a third of humanity.
Across cultures and continents, results remained consistent: scarcity, coercion, and collapse.
Western European trial-runs fared no better.
An economic system based on a faulty understanding of human nature will not succeed.
Across cultures and continents, results remained consistent: scarcity, coercion, and collapse.
Western European trial-runs fared no better.
An economic system based on a faulty understanding of human nature will not succeed.
December 20, 2025 at 4:47 AM
At its peak, socialism governed roughly a third of humanity.
Across cultures and continents, results remained consistent: scarcity, coercion, and collapse.
Western European trial-runs fared no better.
An economic system based on a faulty understanding of human nature will not succeed.
Across cultures and continents, results remained consistent: scarcity, coercion, and collapse.
Western European trial-runs fared no better.
An economic system based on a faulty understanding of human nature will not succeed.
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor
- Flannery O'Connor
December 19, 2025 at 3:11 AM
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor
- Flannery O'Connor
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.”
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie
December 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.”
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie
- Maria Skłodowska-Curie
"Blessed is the person who makes themselves deaf to every pleasure that separates him from his Creator."
- St. Isaac the Syrian
- St. Isaac the Syrian
December 17, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"Blessed is the person who makes themselves deaf to every pleasure that separates him from his Creator."
- St. Isaac the Syrian
- St. Isaac the Syrian
"Very liberals" cut ties with both friends and family at twice the rate of "liberals" and "very conservatives."
"Very liberals" cut ties with both friends and family at about four times the rate of "moderates" and "conservatives."
research.skeptic.com/american-pol...
"Very liberals" cut ties with both friends and family at about four times the rate of "moderates" and "conservatives."
research.skeptic.com/american-pol...
December 13, 2025 at 11:26 PM
"Very liberals" cut ties with both friends and family at twice the rate of "liberals" and "very conservatives."
"Very liberals" cut ties with both friends and family at about four times the rate of "moderates" and "conservatives."
research.skeptic.com/american-pol...
"Very liberals" cut ties with both friends and family at about four times the rate of "moderates" and "conservatives."
research.skeptic.com/american-pol...
"The soul of the one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, and is always in the mood for singing."
- St. John of the Cross
- St. John of the Cross
December 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
"The soul of the one who serves God always swims in joy, always keeps holiday, and is always in the mood for singing."
- St. John of the Cross
- St. John of the Cross
"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t."
- Roger Scruton
- Roger Scruton
December 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t."
- Roger Scruton
- Roger Scruton
“It is dangerous for a man to teach unless he has first tested what he says.“
- Abba Pambo
- Abba Pambo
December 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“It is dangerous for a man to teach unless he has first tested what he says.“
- Abba Pambo
- Abba Pambo
"Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them."
- Roger Scruton
- Roger Scruton
December 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
"Free speech is not the cause of the tensions that are growing around us, but the only possible solution to them."
- Roger Scruton
- Roger Scruton
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Soren Kierkegaard
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself."
- Soren Kierkegaard
- Soren Kierkegaard
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
December 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking..."
- Leo Tolstoy
- Leo Tolstoy
"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
November 18, 2025 at 4:55 AM
"A God who let us prove his existence would be an idol."
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The chaos around us isn’t new.
It’s simply the latest round of the same old experiment.
It’s simply the latest round of the same old experiment.
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The chaos around us isn’t new.
It’s simply the latest round of the same old experiment.
It’s simply the latest round of the same old experiment.
Leadership, to be real and enduring, must be rooted in eternal truths - Christian principles and virtues that have sustained Western civilization and shaped countless institutions.
Without them, power drifts; with them, people and societies are certain to flourish.
Without them, power drifts; with them, people and societies are certain to flourish.
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Leadership, to be real and enduring, must be rooted in eternal truths - Christian principles and virtues that have sustained Western civilization and shaped countless institutions.
Without them, power drifts; with them, people and societies are certain to flourish.
Without them, power drifts; with them, people and societies are certain to flourish.
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
October 31, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
The ancients knew that truth, goodness, and beauty were intertwined - that ugliness in form often revealed disorder in the soul.
This is a lesson for the modern West: our recognition of truth and moral instincts are mirrored in the aesthetic - and our aesthetics have decayed.
This is a lesson for the modern West: our recognition of truth and moral instincts are mirrored in the aesthetic - and our aesthetics have decayed.
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The ancients knew that truth, goodness, and beauty were intertwined - that ugliness in form often revealed disorder in the soul.
This is a lesson for the modern West: our recognition of truth and moral instincts are mirrored in the aesthetic - and our aesthetics have decayed.
This is a lesson for the modern West: our recognition of truth and moral instincts are mirrored in the aesthetic - and our aesthetics have decayed.
"If God had not permitted suffering, man would not know his limits, nor his need for God."
- St. Gregory the Theologian
- St. Gregory the Theologian
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 AM
"If God had not permitted suffering, man would not know his limits, nor his need for God."
- St. Gregory the Theologian
- St. Gregory the Theologian
Western civilization’s greatest gift to the world wasn’t wealth or power; it was conscience. A belief that truth, reason, and human dignity transcend tribe, race, and empire.
The world needs that faith now more than ever.
The world needs that faith now more than ever.
October 28, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Western civilization’s greatest gift to the world wasn’t wealth or power; it was conscience. A belief that truth, reason, and human dignity transcend tribe, race, and empire.
The world needs that faith now more than ever.
The world needs that faith now more than ever.
Direction changes destiny. And, sometimes, the smallest course correction today saves years tomorrow.
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Direction changes destiny. And, sometimes, the smallest course correction today saves years tomorrow.
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
- Jim Rohn
- Jim Rohn
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.”
- Jim Rohn
- Jim Rohn
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway
October 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
- Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway