to the silly Puritan attempt to deny the sanctity of Chesterton based on his enjoyment of food and drink<\/a>.<\/p>\nShouting \u201cFatso!\u201d is a curiously favored tactic of two classes of people in my experience: Reactionaries and schoolyard children. \u00a0I don\u2019t know why somebody would use it to try to stop the no-brainer belief that Chesterton was saintly. \u00a0Even the far more well-grounded evidence that Chesterton struggled with\u00a0a typical Victorian and Edwardian hostility to Jews (hoo boy does saying this get me in trouble with some Chestertonians!) is not sufficient evidence to deny his obvious goodness and sanctity in my view. \u00a0It\u2019s not the raw material we are given, but what we do with it, that makes or breaks us as saints. \u00a0Chesterton, under grace, made a great and good saint of himself, despite his flaws. \u00a0Santo subito!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026 to the silly Puritan attempt to deny the sanctity of Chesterton based on his enjoyment of food and drink. Shouting \u201cFatso!\u201d is a curiously favored tactic of two classes of people in my experience: Reactionaries and schoolyard children. \u00a0I don\u2019t know why somebody would use it to try to stop the no-brainer belief that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-56330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chestertoniana"],"yoast_head":"\n
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