Chesterton on patriotism

In his classic book Orthodoxy , G. K. Chesterton famously said that the doctrine of original sin is the part of Christian theology that can really be proved. What he had in mind, I think, is the part of that doctrine that holds that as a result of the Fall, our capacity to obey even the most obvious precepts of natural law has been gravely impaired. I think this impairment is indeed obviously…