A page on Facebook posted the following meme:
Being a trusting sort, I reposted it. Yikes. I got jumped on by multiple people claiming he never said that, that Billy Sunday said it.
Knowing that there are all sorts of memes out there falsely attributing quotations to various people, I went off into the interuniverse searching for the source of the quotation.
I found multiple attributions to Chesterton, but also multiple attributions (or variations of it) to Billy Sunday. So then I tried digging deeper to see if indeed Chesterton said it where he said it. Alas, he was regularly quoted as saying it, but no documentation was offered where he supposedly said it.
So, any Chesterton experts out there know if he did indeed say this, and where he said it?
1 comment:
I don't believe he said it. I've never encountered it and it doesn't sound like him. Chesterton was more inclined to see the Christianity in supposedly secular people (who live in Christian or post-Christian societies) than to doubt anyone's Christianity.
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