One of the aims of terrorists is to make their opponent lose their sense of balance and proportion. Judging from recent events, this isn’t difficult to do.
The other day I came across yet another claim by an atheistic philosopher that God is unnecessary to ethics, that we can ground moral duties even if there is no God.
Let us set aside the question of whether this common claim is true. For purposes of discussion, let us proceed as though it were.
The chief limitation of the human intellect is not sheer shortage of brainpower, but defect of character. The weakness of our minds is not that we are not smart enough, but that we are not good enough.
Consider how faulty our thinking is about other people because we are too interested in ourselves;
Mondays are for student letters – or at least letters from young people -- and yes, this was a real letter.
Question:
The evidence is his persistent employment of the second person plural. For example:
“The God of peace be with y’all.” (Romans 15:33)
I am speaking in Tucson Thursday night
Political slang used to be a lot more fun. In the days of the big-city political machines, Progressives who fancied themselves advocates of “good government” were called Goo Goos.
I am speaking in Tucson tomorrow night
“... and the Lord went before them to show the way by day in a pillar of a cloud.” Faith, similar to clouds, is opaque with its mysteries, dissolves when it gives way to vision, and moistens by arousing devotion.
If I say that euthanasia should be illegal because murder violates the law of God, then obviously I suppose that there is a God, that He has a law, that this law ought to be obeyed, that it forbids murder, that euthanasia is murder, and that He requires human authority to back him up on such a point.
If any Underground Thomists are in Tucson on the evening of Thursday, February 26, you may be interested in an autobiographical talk I’ve been asked to give at a Veritas Forum at the University of Arizona. The title is “Why I Am Not an Atheist.”