Posted on 02/05/2002 1:58:35 PM PST by cebadams
Even if it were true that Monaghan's purpose was to annoy, irritate, and atagonize with his cross, how different is he with his sculpture (which happens to be a cross) than all the vile, anti-Catholic sculpture and paintings found today in any PUBLIC museum. At least Monaghan is paying for his assault to those who hate his catholicism.
I'm something of an arch-Protestant but have admired Mr. Monaghan for many years. He's done a lot of wonderful things for a lot of people.
Ol' Pete? I think you meant to say Little Peter.
Alas, I haven't read it, though it has had plenty of local coverage since the editor of a local newspaper co-authored it. I'm a little put-off by readers' comments that it doesn't source its material, and I wonder if FR provides me the same information at a similar cost(at least, at the rate I donate). I hope to skim the book at the library soon.
I did read Robert P. George's _The Clash of Orthodoxies_, which is my style of book. In the process of demolishing the reasoning of "secular orthodoxy," the author makes the rational case for certain Christian political stands, and also provides a stronger foundation for the best of American political principles.
Great thinker. What is secular orthodoxy?
1) Reason is instrumental; humans use it to get what they want, rather than to figure out what they should want. In Hume's words, "Reason is, and only ought to be, the slave of the passions." This is of course deterministic, and usually relativistic. (Marx subscribed to this view, too)
2) Person/Body dualism. The body is not part of the person, but a tool of the person. Thus, when the "person" decides the body is getting in its way of happiness, the body can be destroyed. For the orthodox secularist, human life is of instrumental, and not intrinsic value. It also allows people to distinguish between a human embryo and a human person, and for that matter a severely-retarded or comatose adult human and a human person.
George also describes the secularist orthodoxy on marriage. Needless to say, he writes how in his view the traditional (and, I would say, conservative) worldview is rationally superior on each topic. These two articles comprise the first chapter of his book:
A Clash of Orthodoxies: An Exchange (a secular critic of the above article and George's response)
I'll repost these links to your previous George thread, too.
LOL! Yes I did.
But being religious and putting up a giant religious icon that towers over everything else in town are two very different things.
Earth to Peter: cathedrals tower over everything else in town, too. Duh.
Anybody got any 'Avoid the Noid' stuff they want to send me?
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