My feeling is that “Rule of Law” doesn’t apply to the secular in such cases. Thus, equality of the law isn’t the reality, but the fleecing of Catholics is. Unfortunately, Justice will be returned when Mercy could have been.
**Thus, equality of the law isn’t the reality, but the fleecing of Catholics is. Unfortunately, Justice will be returned when Mercy could have been.**
This is so true.
Last night, I heard the number of abuses by public school teachers — I think it was each month.
The number was astounding — in the 220s. (Thinking it was on Bill O’Reilly which I watched for a short time.)
My feeling is that the spirit of the times already militates against the rule of law. The law we have is not something America could come up with from scratch if she had to try. Most of our formal and informal institutions have been merely cannibalizing from old cultural achievements for a long time now, so enticing are the promises of secular materialism. This is why we have to write off the America that is staring us in the face, and struggle to build a new America in our own “little” ways.
We have materialist-behaviorist schooling that teaches people to assume secular premises, become habituated to them, and play them out in the school environment (which is simply a model of the society-at-large). OTOH, Religion with a capital "R" is out the door.
School is the dream-child of egoists who fell prey to the secularist temptation to see everything around us as a staging ground for our own, this-worldly ambitions. Thus, school has tremendous misguided, egotistical ambition driving it.
The great temptation for us is to jump aboard the secularist bandwagon - to "find a way to make the schools better." What that means is to stay wedded to the secularist dream even if the good things around us need to be destroyed in the pursuit thereof.