You don’t need to believe in God to have good values individually. A society that shuns God is a different story. https://t.co/GSocTbQlui
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 13, 2017
I’m strongly inclined to agree with Shapiro on that.
By analogy, I am pretty confident it’s possible for a couple to, say, marry before one of them is through college, practice contraception to allow that one the best chance to finish college on time, and not buy into the culture of death by so doing. But if Rome is right on this (which I often wonder), they’re still doing a bad thing, and they’re probably creating cognitive dissonance should they wish later to criticize “the contraceptive mentality.”
A society that decides that contraception should make every child Planned® is a different story.
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An interesting question is what the polls would look like if Roy Moore had immediately confessed, begged forgiveness, and placed himself in the hands of voters.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 13, 2017
“Before I was married I was a sinner and a creep. I beg the young woman’s forgiveness. It was decades ago, and I ask you to judge me on the good husband and father and grandfather I’ve become.” Etc.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) November 13, 2017
I think he’s burned that bridge, but I am regularly amazed at people’s credulity and partisan flip-flopping.
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One thing Roy Moore reax proves: @roddreher totally correct in his #BenOp book to place no hope for Xian cons in the old religious right.
— Niall Gooch (@niall_gooch) November 13, 2017
Let me translate:
One thing the Roy Moore reaction proves: Rod Dreher is totally correct in his Benedict Option book to place no hope for Christian conservatives in the old Religious Right.
He’s got that right. If they’re not uniformly corrupt, politically and morally compromised, the old Religious Right is too full of metastatic corruption and compromise to even hold out hope for them.
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The world according to Pedobart:
Convincing 14-year-old to undress and touch you when you’re a 32-year-old deputy DA: let’s reserve judgment
Convincing the former 14-year-old to talk about it years later: THIS IS AN OUTRAGE
— Customary Popehat Behavior (@Popehat) November 13, 2017
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“Liberal education is concerned with the souls of men, and therefore has little or no use for machines … [it] consists in learning to listen to still and small voices and therefore in becoming deaf to loudspeakers.” (Leo Strauss)
There is no epistemological Switzerland. (Via Mars Hill Audio Journal Volume 134)
Tipsy Teetotaler ن 