Posted on 07/06/2006 7:01:37 AM PDT by dukeman
Robert P. George explains how a simple experiment reveals the great divide in our culture.
This year, we are exploring a single big questionHow can followers of Christ be a counterculture for the common good?with leaders inside and outside of evangelical Christianity. The Catholic legal scholar Robert P. George is a friendly outsider. As McCormick professor of jurisprudence and director of the James Madison program in American ideals and institutions at Princeton University, he has been a vigorous advocate for the Catholic natural law tradition's relevance to debates about morality in the public square. In an age when even many Christians question the effectiveness of reasoned argument toward truth, George offers a bracing counterpoint. Editorial director Andy Crouch spoke with George at his Princeton office.
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I looked in vain for God in this article. It's entirely humanistic, though it claims some connection to "religious" values for one side.
I would say this is a lot of fluff. Words for money article.
Still, you're half-right. One of the weaknesses of Christian natural law theory is its overly-philosophical interpreters who don't follow up sound philosophical reasoning with sound theological insight.
The article seemed to purposely be a description of two religions, a secular one and a God-based one. It points out that the anti-God crowd themselves have a religion of self, the secular elite. (Which is manifest in Communism where the state is the church and the party leader is God. Of course this is my added comment that is not in the article.)
The article points out the differences in values of two religions, primarily centering on the value of individual human life. The secularist religion values individual autonomy over human life, per se, while the God-based religions make human life uppermost.
If you didn't see that you missed it because you were looking for something else.
Thanks, dukeman, for a good article.
He is saying much the same thing that Ann Coulter is saying. The secularists have their own form of religion: liberalism.
And abortion is one of the secularist sacraments.
Read later bump.
Nice article. Thanks.
For those wondering what the article says, heres my quick synopsis:
First:
Good People Fear God, Dont Kill Babies and tend to vote Republican.
Bad People Hate God, Kill Babies and tend to vote Democrat.
Second:
Good people tend to get pissed off at bad people because they really muck up your life with too much faith in governmental affairs.
Three:
Good people should play nice and love their enemies, the evil baby killing god haters, and hope like hell a little kumbaya moment comes along to save the day.
Heres my question:
If God would play by the rules the Constitution and Bill of Rights -- why cant the Good People that Fear God, Dont Kill Babies and tend to vote Republican?
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