“The Titanic is unsinkable. Therefore we don’t need the extra lifeboats.We’ll get there faster without them.”
“But…”
“Oh. Shut up will you. You have a hidden bias. You’re bigoted and intolerant; a complete fool who doesn’t believe in ‘progress’.”
Karl Barth:
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“There is a lie to be seen in the contrast between all the fuss and bother [the luxuries & arrogance] on board this ship and the helpless way in which it then had to submit to a very elementary force of nature.
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The catastrophe brought this lie to light. God will not be mocked. He certainly intends us to work and to achieve something in the world. But He does not intend us to act as though we were done with working, and could now go fooling around.
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…If we have to say of the Titanic and its 1500 victims today…the blame for this lies with humanity.”
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(On The Sinking of The Titanic, 21st April 1912)
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