Looking for a G.K. Chesterton quote

[Danjabo]

A few days ago I heard one of Dale Ahlquist’s “Chesterton Minutes” on Catholic radio and I was trying to find it [Chesterton’s quote] on the internet. The gist of it is that people are fine talking about God and theorizing about Him, but they are not comfortable living as if He really exists. At the end Chesterton summed it up something like: in the past it was considered bad to not believe in God, but now it is considered bad to act as if He exists. Does anyone know the quote I’m talking about and where I can find it? I was planning on using it in a presentation on popular piety in the Church. Thanks!

 

[MPat]

At the end Chesterton summed it up something like: in the past it was considered bad to not believe in God, but now it is considered bad to act as if He exists. Does anyone know the quote I’m talking about and where I can find it?

“Heretics”, “Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy” (Heretics -- Introductory Remarks on the Importance of Orthodoxy) - “Sixty years ago it was bad taste to be an avowed atheist. Then came the Bradlaughites, the last religious men, the last men who cared about God; but they could not alter it. It is still bad taste to be an avowed atheist. But their agony has achieved just this-- that now it is equally bad taste to be an avowed Christian.”?

 

[Danjabo]

Yes! That sounds just like the last part; although, Ahlquist must have used an ellipsis in quoting him. I wonder if everything he said above that is also in the introduction to Heretics. I’ll check it out. Thank you so much!