[NYer]

Ping!

[Vendome]

Fascinating article and apros to regular Baptists, as well....

[nathanbedford]

It is one thing to repair to a private chapel and worship an ultimate truth and quite another thing to go into the legislature and make laws to impose your ultimate truth on another citizen.

It is one thing to oppose a shibboleth like, "As long as you're not hurting others, you're free to do and believe what you like" and quite another to regulate conduct prohibiting people from doing as they like when they in fact do not hurt others. Equally, it is hardly philosophically defensible to prohibit sentinent adults from conduct which hurts only themselves. To extend the principle even further, it's is even wrong to prohibit people from doing as they like when the harm to others is less than the harm caused by the enforcement of the prohibition-a situation we have seen in our own country and under the same name.

The point, context is all and there is no warrant granted either to the left to endlessly regulate conduct for their ends as there is no warrant granted to the right, Christian or otherwise, to regulate conduct to achieve their spiritual goals by force of law.

There is a very good reason why we have a First Amendment and that amendment has two sides to it.

Is a very dangerous path which sounds good when a Christian hears familiar refrains to transform them into law but it clangs rudely against our sensitivities when the impetus is to impose sharia. Arguments adduced to impose Christian conduct upon society by the force of law can be equally maintained to impose sharia-unless some value apart from divine word becomes part of the context.

[WVKayaker]

More from the cult of persons...

[Vaquero]

This is a 100% truism for practicing Roman Catholics. Don’t claim you are a practicing Catholic on your own terms. There are rules.

I do not pretend. I am a lapsed Catholic since HS with 2 brief excursions back. I do not receive the sacraments when I do attend Mass. I respect the rules and will not defile them to put on a little show for my neighbors in the pews. I know lots of folks do.

[Tax-chick]

Summary: “Everyone is making truth claims based on some authority - even those who claim they aren’t.”

[cloudmountain]

Moral absolutes ping!

[IronJack]

This is the essence of post-post-modernism, that the rejection of absolutes is itself an absolute.

[Jim Noble]

There’s a reason that the only direct quote from Pilate is “What IS truth?”

[defconw]

Are you going to post more of these or did you already? I can’t find the Claim 3. Thanks