Posted on 04/15/2019 7:59:55 AM PDT by Great Awakening
Do most lawyers lie?
It seems that obfuscation is their specialty.
And, Anonymity promotes bold speech whether good or evil.
Thanks!
Good point.
Yep.
Thank you!
IMHO,
It has always been a struggle between the individual’s free will & the will of others. Even in the closest of personal relationships, there are differences that constantly require an objective process for maintaining a peaceful, equally fulfilling experience.
Morality is a set of rules for the ‘game’ of relationships.
Laws are a codification of common-sense-rules that essentially describe, rather than prescribe, acceptable, standard behavior. Any force applied in the process of conforming to the ‘rules’ must be considered coercive in nature to be used at last resort to prevent unacceptable injury to anyone.
Respectfully offered.
Acts 10:13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
“Laws are a codification of common-sense-rules that essentially describe, rather than prescribe”
Sorry, but the compelling force of government behind secular laws makes them a “preciption” more than a mere “description”. Your morality can make you desirous of following a certain behvior rule, but the secular law can compel that behavior on punishment - in real life in real time - for not doing so.
My doctor can “describe” or “recommend”, but if wants to compel the pharmacist to proivide something the doctor wants to be sure I get, he writes a “prescription” not a mere “description”.
That adds nothing to Peter’s explanation in Acts 10:28, where he explains exactly what (or rather whom) God has cleansed instead of saying that God had cleansed the animals shown in the vision.
Acts 11:18 affirms this; the cleansing was upon the Gentiles.
I didn’t write it. I’m just telling you what it said. God told him to eat the unclean items because they were now clean. I assume He knew what He was talking about.
Thanks!
Great post.
IMHO,
The ‘law’ of action & reaction applies in all things.
Too many of us do not understand that nothing is ‘free’.
Freedom isn’t free.
Speech is a physical objective thing that is formed in thought & expressed in words that may or may not do good or harm.
‘Free speech’ is an unalienable right, but not without responsibility for the consequences of what is said & not without risk of unfavorable response.
The sense of entitlement has been perpetrated by the enemies of a responsible self-sustaining society where the afflicted have little empathy for those outside their ‘bubble’.
We must teach & relearn basis principles of civility to save ourselves & our nation.
Thanks for your dialogue.
Best regards
Here’s what it really says
Acts 10:13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” 15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call **anything** impure that God has made clean.”
They are talking about food and animals, not people. Peter later extended it to people.
Our free will came from God, if that answers your question.
Religion I think is our behavior associated with our attempts either to practice our faith or to appear as though we are practicing what we claim to be our faith.
If there is a purpose for religion, it’s created by humans. Jesus teaches us to abandon religion so that we can follow him.
It’s so plain that there are how many different denominations of Christianity?
Yep. And there is a difference between responsibility and repression. The latter isn’t needed if the former is exercised.
Societal changes come from identifiable causes.
The goal of the Marxists has been to destroy the civilization that essentially came from Christendom. They founded the Frankfort School in 1923.
They specifically targeted family, church, work ethic, education and traditional morals in general.
Marcuse published Eros and Civilization in 1955. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road was 1957. Charles Bukowski was doing his thing as early as the 1940’s.
Max Horkheimer wrote The Eclipse of Reason and, with Theodor Adorno, The Dialectic of Enlightenment in 1947.
Erich Fromm wrote Escape From Freedom in 1941 and Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics, in 1947.
Don’t miss this part:
Jesus teaches us to abandon religion so that we can follow him.
Thank you!
It is a worthy subject, but I do not submit to the tutelage of any product of Marxist Law School.
My exemplar is Jesus Christ. I aspired to be a lawyer until, at age seventeen, I saw what they were.
Yeah, but it was not as gorgeous a treatise as the other one.
Harvard Law School specializes in producing immoral practitioners.
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