Don Colacho’s Aphorisms

The Gospels and the Communist Manifesto are on the wane; the world’s future lies in the power of Coca-Cola and pornography. Escolios a un Te...

What concerns the Christ of the Gospels is not the economic situation of the poor man, but the moral condition of the rich man. Escolios a u...

Even though they are full of threats, I fail to see anything in the Gospels but promises. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 450

The Church in recent times has not known how to distinguish between the new truths that call for the rebuilding of the theological structure...

The city imagined by every utopian is always tacky—beginning with that of the Apocalypse. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 335

The prophet is not God’s confidant, but a rag blown about by sacred squalls. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 312

To love one’s neighbor is without doubt a commandment, but the gospel is the love that awaits us. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección ,...

The Gospels, in the hands of the progressive clergy, degenerate into a compilation of trivial ethical teachings. Escolios a un Texto Implíci...

Progressive Christians painstakingly search through sociology manuals for material with which to fill lacunae in the Gospel. Escolios a un T...

We cannot find shelter in the Gospel alone, as we also cannot take refuge in the seed of the oak tree, but rather next to the twisted trunk ...

When he died, Christ did not leave behind documents, but disciples. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 233

Whereas the Protestant depends on a text, we Catholics are the process where the text was born. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p...

That the gospels are a reflection of the primitive Church is a thesis a Catholic can accept. But lethal for Protestantism. Escolios a un Tex...

To democratize Christianity they have to falsify the texts, reading “equal” where they say “brother.” Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecci...

The biblical prophet is not an augur of the future, but a witness to the presence of God in history. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selecció...

The Bible is not the voice of God, but of the man who encounters Him. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 95

Unlike the Biblical archangel, Marxist archangels prevent man from escaping their paradises. Escolios a un Texto Implícito: Selección , p. 6...

The Bible was not inspired by a ventriloquist God. The divine voice passes through the sacred text like a stormy wind through the foliage of...

Note: This entry is designed to gather into one place the aphorisms in which Gómez Dávila mentions God and religion. Other aphorisms relevan...