How could he appease the wrath of Him who died on the cross, save by years of bitter supplication and self-punishment?

2019, “Misinformation Has Created a New World Disorder”, in Scientific American:

He was simply one of those many thousand England yearly turns out from her public schools of fine, dashing, free-hearted, careless boys, whose most marked feature in character is a wholesome horror of all that is mean or shabby.

[cw anti-trans slurs] I get that they're rarer than 'trap' (being used to describe trans women as intentional deceivers) but I'd like it if people could be equally hostile to the terms 'brick' and 'hon' honestly it's all transmisic garbage