God, the Creator of this universe and far more, isn’t a lunatic speaking mere syllables strung together. God is rational and all-knowing. When He speaks, He knows. When He speaks, what He says is true, already or in some state of development. When He chooses to know something about contingent being in an active way, … [Read more…]
Let me state a certain political position as: The United States of America are but Massachusetts is. This is a grammatical statement of the classic States’ rights doctrine which was one of the matters so violently dealt with in the American war between the states. It was, in fact, a matter of contention from the … [Read more…]
Preface This entry is the core of a larger work. It’s sketchy and incomplete but possibly worth the read. Introduction In the Gospel of St. John, we read: As [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he … [Read more…]
Most political and economic commentaries assume we know the proper structures and relationships for morally ordering various sorts of human communities. If things look bad, we can just fix up our governments and our religious institutions and our various private organizations with technical changes and choices of leaders with better moral character. I’d say that … [Read more…]