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A quotation from Chamfort

I once heard an orthodox person denouncing those who discuss articles of faith. “Gentlemen,” he said naïvely, “a true Christian does not examine what he is ordered to believe. Dogma is like a bitter pill: if you chew it, you will never be able to swallow it.”
 
[J’ai entendu un dévot, parlant contre des gens qui discutent des articles de foi, dire naïvement: «Messieurs, un vrai chrétien n’examine point ce qu’on lui ordonne de croire. Tenez, il en est de cela comme d’une pillule amère, si vous la mâchez, jamais vous ne pourrez l’avaler.»]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionnée], Part 2 “Characters and Anecdotes [Caractères et Anecdotes],” ¶ 1148 (1795) [tr. Hutchinson (1902)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/749…

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don’t make it of wood, you must make it of words, which are just as much used for idols as promissory notes are used for values.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Article (1872-05), “The Poet at the Breakfast-Table,” Atlantic Monthly

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

WIST Quotations · Article (1872-05), "The Poet at the Breakfast-Table," Atlantic Monthly - Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr. | WIST QuotationsMen are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words, which are just as much used for idols as promissory notes are…

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A quotation from Josh Billings

Thoze people who are trieing to git to heaven on their kreed will find out at last that they didn’t hav a thru ticket.
 
[Those people who are trying to get to heaven on their creed will find out at last that they didn’t have a through ticket.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]

Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 9 “The Ram and Crawfish” (1874)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/billings-josh/74386/

WIST Quotations · Josh Billings' Trump Kards, ch. 9 "The Ram and Crawfish" (1874) - Billings, Josh | WIST QuotationsThoze people who are trieing to git to heaven on their kreed will find out at last that they didn't hav a thru ticket. [Those people who are trying to get to heaven on their creed will find out at last that they didn't have a through ticket.]

Thomas Chalmers, Scottish Presbyterian minister, writes on “turning the other cheek” from the Sermon on the Mount. We are prone to dream up scenarios where obedience might be painful or inconvenient. There is a temptation to set aside the commandment.

Some others say these rules were for a different time.

How can you turn the other cheek?

In recent years, U.S. Supreme Court decisions have undercut federal agencies’ ability to curb pollution and fight climate change.

Several cases decided in 2024 continued this trend,
systematically shifting the power to make and enforce environmental regulations over to the judicial branch.

Though it will likely take years to know the full consequences of this year’s rulings,
legal experts say they have profound implications as to how federal agencies can respond to the threat of climate change.
Congress passed the majority of the laws that protect our lands and waters decades ago,
and with an increasingly polarized political environment, legislators have passed few new environmental regulations since.
In the past few decades, Congress has in effect tasked federal agencies with adapting existing laws to our new climate reality,
said Chris Winter, executive director of the University of Colorado Law School’s Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy, and the Environment.

But with an increasingly conservative Supreme Court in place, these laws have come under increased scrutiny,
including in several of the court’s 2024 landmark decisions.
Perhaps the most significant was #Loper #Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo,
which overturned the 1984 #Chevron #doctrine, a powerful legal tool that gave federal agencies the ability to interpret and enforce ambiguous or unclear laws.
For decades, the courts have largely deferred to agency experts in crafting and enforcing regulations,
since those agencies typically have greater expertise in their subject areas than judges do.
By eliminating Chevron, the court transferred the authority to clarify the meaning of a written law to the judicial system.

Loper Bright has already raised “a lot of uncertainty” about whether or how agencies should create and enforce environmental regulations,
according to Winter.

The last few years have signaled a structural change in the balance of power between courts and federal agencies, he said,
with courts now working hard to rein in federal regulators.

Meanwhile, industry groups eager to roll back regulations have filed lawsuits in conservative states with business-friendly judges.

In federal courts in Wyoming, Utah and Montana, for example,
groups representing farmers, ranchers and the fossil fuel industry have cited Loper Bright as a precedent for suing the Biden administration to overturn the 2024 #Public #Lands #Rule,
which designated conservation as a legitimate “use” for public lands in line with extractive uses like mining, grazing and logging.

As of Sept. 6, Loper Bright has been cited in 110 federal cases, according to the advocacy group Democracy Forward.

“These days, it doesn’t feel like you can really think deeply about the law. It is simply a political battle,”
said Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, executive director of the Western Environmental Law Center,
a nonprofit public-interest environmental law firm.

Altogether, the body of law emerging from the court has “prioritized politically oriented property rights and economic rights,”
Schlenker-Goodrich said.
“In other words, corporate rights and corporate power.”

hcn.org/articles/the-supreme-c

High Country News · The Supreme Court decisions that gutted environmental protections in 2024By Natalia Mesa