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"When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing — they believe in anything."

— G. K. Chesterton

January 1, 1970

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This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Émile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having Father Brown say, in "The Oracle of the Dog" (1923): "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense." Cammaerts then interposes his own analysis between further quotes from Father Brown: "'It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it i

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This quotation actually comes from page 211 of Émile Cammaerts' book The Laughing Prophet: The Seven Virtues and G. K. Chesterton (1937) in which he quotes Chesterton as having Father Brown say, in "The Oracle of the Dog" (1923): "It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense." Cammaerts then interposes his own analysis between further quotes from Father Brown: "'It's drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism, it's coming in like a sea; and the name of it i