Chesterton versus Christopher Hitchens

Here’s an interesting post from today’s Crisis Magazine, defending Chesterton against Christopher Hitchens:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/who-dares-attack-my-chesterton

Joseph Pearce2012-06-05T23:43:29-05:00

Joseph Pearce is a Catholic author and biographer who has written about subjects as various as GK Chesterton, economics, and Shakespeare.

Recent Convert June 7, 2012 at 3:09 am - Reply

Very interesting stuff! Especially about Chesterton and Prussia. I knew of Belloc’s view, but not GKC’s.
It is very interesting to see how they linked the Prussian mentality with Hitlerism, it makes more than a little sense…which makes me wonder why I have never read about it before? Were GKC and Belloc the only ones who saw it this way?
Belloc actually goes as far back as Prussia’s pagan days in pointing out their inclination towards savagery. And, as someone who loves the middle ages, including the northern crusades, I can attest to the fact: the Prussians were some of the most savage, violent pagan peoples in all of Europe (even dabbled in human sacrifice). It seems they never really lost that, and Belloc liked to point that out (though he actually blamed the Orthodox for this if I’m not mistaken….though I can’t remember the exact reason why he believed this).