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To: Coleus
Exactly. We are here:“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.
3 posted on 12/05/2018 6:23:03 PM PST by Fungi
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To: Fungi

Yes. I read that in high school (private Christian prep).

To a collectivist, society is real, and the individual is illusory. To a conservative, society is illusory, and the individual is real.


29 posted on 12/06/2018 12:42:29 AM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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