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The Revenge of Conscience (Very good article on moral relativism)
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| June 1998
| J. Budziszewski
Posted on 12/23/2018 6:17:07 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: Tax-chick; All
Note that this item is from twenty years ago.
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:22:21 AM PST
by
Tax-chick
(Ask me about my Marine!)
To: RoosterRedux
Atheists claim they don’t need God because they are guided by their inner sense of right and wrong. But there is no inner sense apart from God. They’re fooled into thinking that right and wrong depends on what feels good and what doesn’t. That’s the same set of morality guiding every evil person in history.
To: RoosterRedux
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:26:40 AM PST
by
buridan
To: RoosterRedux
tolerate is different than approve
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:33:31 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heroess obviously sick have always been cowboys)
To: RoosterRedux
Why do things get worse so fast?
skepticism = truth is unknowable
nihilism = there is no truth
skepticism + nihilism = subjectivism + relativism = anything goes
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:37:18 AM PST
by
mjp
((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
To: RoosterRedux
None of the above would have been possible had not (pseudo Christians/hypocrites) put evil men into the highest offices in the land. These hypocrites would chant, "separation of church and state!" without even knowing where the phrase came from or why. These hypocrites chant that mantra whenever anyone points out the contradiction to their Christian "faith."
America was a Christian nation. But pseudo Christians abandon matters of faith when it interferes with their fun.
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:42:42 AM PST
by
LouAvul
(The most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will.)
To: RoosterRedux
When winds of conscience waft about thy head,
And brooks of rue do babble in thy brain,
Seek not thy quietude in lonely bed,
Nor utter careful words to stay thy pain.
For though words chosen well may ease the smart,
And turn the wretched, hateful wrong to right,
Alas, in sooth, they cannot touch the heart,
Nor kill Remorse, which flies upon the night,
With Satan, the Accuser, who will steal,
Betimes to whisper softly in thine ears,
Of dark deeds done; of rack, of cord, of wheel,
And play upon the pipes of hidden fears.
Thus torn asunder, none shall see thy strife;
Thy spotted hand; thy bloody, dripping knife.
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posted on
12/23/2018 6:54:46 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: RoosterRedux
I have Budziszewski's book. He is very difficult to read, but worth the struggle. This article is easier to read than his book. It is worth reading over and over.
It is the same Natural Law about which he writes, which informed our moral sense, the English Common Law and our Constitution ,which is almost lost
We could use a repentance and return to it in this country to MAGoodA.
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posted on
12/23/2018 7:28:53 AM PST
by
amihow
To: Telepathic Intruder
‘But there is no inner sense apart from God.’
sorry, that’s simply not true...
To: RoosterRedux
A desire to return to a time “when every man did what was right IN HIS OWN EYES.” a return to BARBARISM.
To: LouAvul
‘America was a Christian nation.’
actually, America was an Enlightenment nation...the Age of Reason, and all that, acknowledging the abstract deist notion of the Creator, rather than the specific Judeo-Christian God...
To: Mr Ramsbotham
Nice. Who wrote that, please?
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posted on
12/23/2018 8:09:17 AM PST
by
MV=PY
(The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
To: IrishBrigade
There is no inner sense “of right and wrong” is what I said if you read it in context. You’re not born with a sense of morality. That, like many other things, is a learned behavior. How you feel doesn’t provide you with a moral compass.
To: MV=PY
I wrote that many years ago in response to an editorial in the newspaper that simply gushed over the wonders of abortion. It's part of my worldview that conscience is a very particular little bugger that infests the mind and refuses to equivocate, no matter what rationalizations the conscious mind indulges in.
I wrote a short novel on the same theme, a Christmas story called A Fantasía for Two Lutes, which allegorizes the guilt of Western society. Coincidentally, in honor of the Christmas season, it's available for the next few days as a free on Amazon.
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12/23/2018 8:33:58 AM PST
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Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: RoosterRedux
Great article.
Kipling put it in more concise and poetic form in his “Gods of the Copybook Headings”
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_copybook.htm
I love the ominous prophetic ending...
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “
I wonder if the author is familiar with this poem.
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posted on
12/23/2018 9:01:05 AM PST
by
aquila48
To: Mr Ramsbotham
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posted on
12/23/2018 9:08:54 AM PST
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aquila48
To: aquila48
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posted on
12/23/2018 9:50:30 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: aquila48
I wonder if the author is familiar with this poem. I'd be willing to bet he is. Kipling's was a great talent.
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posted on
12/23/2018 9:52:06 AM PST
by
Mr Ramsbotham
("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
To: RoosterRedux
Thanks for posting. Exceptional essay.
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