G. K. Chesterton on Fallacies

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, journalist, critic and Christian apologist. Chesterton converted from High Church Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1922. He authored nearly a hundred books and thousands of essays. Below he considers heterodoxy that is embraced as truth.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

— G.K. Chersteron

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A Prayer in Darkness by G.K. Chesterton

This much, O heaven--if I should brood or rave,

     Pity me not; but let the world be fed,

     Yea, in my madness if I strike me dead,

Heed you the grass that grows upon my grave.

If I dare snarl between this sun and sod,

     Whimper and clamour, give me grace to own,

     In sun and rain and fruit in season shown,

The shining silence of the scorn of God.

Thank God the stars are set beyond my power,

     If I must travail in a night of wrath,

     Thank God my tears will never vex a moth,

Nor any curse of mine cut down a flower.

Men say the sun was darkened: yet I had

     Thought it beat brightly, even on--Calvary:

     And He that hung upon the Torturing Tree

Heard all the crickets singing, and was glad.

May you, with the Church as your guide, seek the truth in all things and never be swayed by fashionable fallacies or falsehoods as you live in imitation of Our Lord.