[Tax-chick]

Note that this item is from twenty years ago.

[Telepathic Intruder]

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.

[buridan]

Great post!

Many thanks!

[yldstrk]

tolerate is different than approve

[mjp]

Why do things get worse so fast?

skepticism = truth is unknowable
nihilism = there is no truth

skepticism + nihilism = subjectivism + relativism = anything goes

[LouAvul]

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.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

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.

[amihow]

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.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

A desire to return to a time “when every man did what was right IN HIS OWN EYES.” a return to BARBARISM.

[aquila48]

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.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Thanks for posting. Exceptional essay.

[elbook]

If it is anything destructive to society, the leftists are for it.