I don’t find the below completely compelling, but it is interesting enough to get the conversation started… “I should like Balls infinitely better,” said Caroline Bingley, “if they were carried on in a different manner … It would surely be much more rational if conversation instead of dancing made the order of the day.” “Much…
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Love this… Some of the earliest personifications of nature were the projections of God as a king and a lawmaker. In prehistoric, low-tech societies, the most important inventions, after language and the ego themselves, were the hunting tribe and then the Neolithic village. Laws were needed to maintain the social order and ancient theists and…
DetailsJust as faith is dead without works, materialism is dead (or at least, incredibly weak) without moral nihilism. All of the great atheists of former days knew this, and Mr. Craig makes the case clear here:
“How can you kill people, when it is written in God’s commandment: ‘Thou shalt not kill’?” I have often inquired of different soldiers. And I always drove them to embarrassment and confusion by reminding them of what they did not want to think about. They knew they were bound by the law of God, “Thou…
DetailsI think these work together still. You tell me: Can one hold that sexuality is a private & sacred thing while simultaneously thinking pornography should be unregulated?
Fr. Barron on Love, Sex, & God:
Rothbard on pornography:
At Mass yesterday, our parish priest offered the following thought scenario: “If you were forced to choose between being an American and being a Catholic, which would you choose? . . . There may soon come a time that the two are incompatible.” He is not radical in any political sense of the word, just…
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