Thank you for that quotation from Whittaker Chambers that brings to mind an occurrence of more than a decade ago that reveals something about the character of those of us who post on Free Republic and reminds me that my thoughts about the leftists playing God are not original but come from Whittaker Chambers.
Years ago a Freeper by private communication offered me a copy of his book "Witness" by Whittaker Chambers because he knew that it was difficult for me to obtain the book here in Germany. He sent the book, he sent it without compensation, he paid the cost of sending it. It was his idea and it was very generous, is tells us something about his generosity of spirit.
There is something about the humility that animates the conservative view of the world and man's place in it that compares favorably to the unmitigated conceits of the man of the left.
That Freeper who sent you the book was me, FRiend, and I am glad that you were that grateful to get it!
(I have purchased and given copies of that book to others as well, so you are not alone. I do the same thing with Thomas Sowell’s “Basic Economics: A Citizen’s Guide To The Economy”. It is a gift that can (but doesn’t always) have greater meaning in some way for those who get it!)