Posted on 12/15/2015 1:51:06 PM PST by don-o
Because he didn't think it was important to cite his sources a number of ideas like "Tabula Rasa" and "consent of the governed" were not original to him but instead actually came from Thomas Aquinas.
I strongly believe it is both. It is not an either/or battle. It is an everywhere in every nook and cranny battle. When we ignore one thing, the left seizes control of it and infects everything.
To be a healthy person you must take care of every part and system in your body. Same goes for the big picture of human interaction.
TO THE WHITE HOUSE...! TO HELL WITH LIBERALS!!!
Well, today a Trump supporter said that conservatism doesn’t really exist, so...
Fair enough, although the healthy culture is the precedent foundation, IMO.
I’m sick of the word, it truly has become the last refuge of scoundrels.
Behold the 21st Century iteration of the Know Nothings.
I can agree with that. It is of course the precedent in the same sense that thoughts precede deeds. But they do also feed off each other. Outside influence can instigate wrong thoughts which then lead to wrong deeds. It is impossible to totally separate the two spheres. They ebb and flow together.
In a theological sense we are all born with wrong thoughts. In a common grace sense, we are blessed by God with some reason and ability to learn right from wrong. We are not as fully corrupt as possible. Even the atheist is capable of doing something good (not in the fullest theological sense, but in the realm of common grace). I think it is the mistake of some to over theologize everything and therefore miss the big picture of our duty and the brilliant way God teaches the world so that on Judgment Day we will all be without excuse — fully responsible.
“But they do also feed off each other. Outside influence can instigate wrong thoughts which then lead to wrong deeds. It is impossible to totally separate the two spheres. They ebb and flow together.”
Agreed.
It's truly disturbing.
At this point it will take a lot for anyone to defeat Trump for the nomination. The regular season is fast approaching, and bleats of “Hillary will mop the floor with Trump” ring hollow when no Republican can beat Trump and Trump is attractive to people outside the Republican base.All very well to proclaim Hillary the winner when she is not engaged. When she is engaged, she will have to enter the fray. When she talks, her poll numbers go down.
I will agree that I fully expect that a President Trump will do things that I don’t like. But I do think Trump will be nominated because he wins the delegates it takes to win it. And I think Trump will turn some purple states red and some blue states purple.
And I think he holds all the red states in the process. Trump is not a died-in-the-wool conservative. But I think he will be POTUS, and he is not Hillary and he is not Obama.
But isn’t that the same sort of argument we’ve gotten from the GOPe the last two elections for why we need to nominate McCain and then Romney? The were electable? I just do not buy that. Clearly it was not true, did not work the last two general elections.
Back at ya. You might want to get Jim Robinson's opinion, it is more inline with my opinion than yours. Just sayin'.
Thank you for again proving my point.
Broken Windows.
Conservatives begin fixing the things they can fix. Start with the things close at hand. Ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our communities. Lead by example.
The enemies of conservatism are those who can do nothing but give in to appetites and passions that destroy societies.
A culture has to exist before it can thrive and grow.
The enemies of a healthy culture are everywhere:
open borders, The Fed, homosexuality, race baiting welfare hustlers, government indoctrination schools, social-justice churches . . .the list can go on and on.
It’s time to choose sides.
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What in the world are you talking about?
He (Ryn) is chairman of the National Humanities Institute, editor of Humanitas, and president of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters.
So, he obviously reprinted his previous published essay in The Imaginative Conservative..
How did I "rip off" anything?
Same sort of argument, yes - but it is not coming from the GOPe, which is still as appalled by Trump’s candidacy as I was initially. I have come to terms with it. It is what it is. The least you can say for it is that realignment seems possible. Without Trump, it does not seem possible.
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