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Yardbird,
It really sucks that you are imposing advertising on us
and turning this list into a billboard. It's really shitty.
Would you please stop.
Joshua2
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> William F. Buckley, Jr. - ON THE RIGHT
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> WHERE DOES GOD GET INTO THE ACT?
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> I am gone! For two weeks' vacation! I am wild with liberty!
> And inclined to dwell for a moment on a question I have been
> asked in other forums in the past few days, namely, what do
> I think of the answer given by presidential candidate George
> W. Bush to the question, Which political philosopher/thinker
> did he identify with? His answer was Christ, "because he
> changed my heart." An OK answer?
>
> Let's touch down, however briefly, on those critics who are
> offended, I think unnecessarily, by the mere mention of God
> as a political mentor. Charles Krauthammer goes all the way:
> "For those who are secular, it is scary. You watch these
> debates, brimming with God talk, and you catch a whiff of the
> Taliban." Well, the nose here has to be extraordinarily twitchy,
> because the candidates who sort of swung with God when the
> question was asked are as unlikely to advocate Muslim extremism
> as Al Smith was to invite the pope to come on over and take
> charge, when such a suspicion was encouraged in 1928.
>
> Nobody was going to object, at the Republican debates, to a
> call to restore morality. But is that call -- to a moral
> renaissance -- to be sharply distinguished from an oblation
> to the godhead of morality? George Washington admonished
> against any "supposition" that "morality can be maintained
> without religion." "Reason and experience," he commented,
> "both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail
> in exclusion of religious principle."
>
> And the context in which Washington spoke was hardly sectarian.
> President Washington wrote with poetic force to the Hebrew
> congregation of Savannah on the divine auspices of intercredal
> toleration. "May the same wonder-working Deity, who long since
> delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors ...
> continue to water them with the dews of heaven and make the
> inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal
> and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah."
>
> But a different question has also been raised, namely whether
> it is correct to summon Christ as a source of political
> philosophy. In one obvious sense God (Christ was God, in the
> Christian understanding) clearly is the source of what should
> be the underlying plank of political philosophy, namely the
> civil question of how to organize a society in which all men
> are equal, and should be free. The difficulty arises in
> suggesting that God is going to emanate a platform for the
> GOP. And that difficulty is at the heart of the problem of
> God as a political philosopher in the context in which that
> question was posed during the debates.
>
> Since we are whiffing things, here is a whiff of God that
> suggests the dimensions in which he is taken. "What art thou
> then, my God? ... Most highest, most good, most potent, most
> omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet
> most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet
> incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new,
> never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud,
> and they know it not; seeking, yet having all things." The
> language of a great poet and metaphysician, St. Augustine.
> In the face of such a God as that, one shrinks from pleading
> his support for a political agenda, though God's sanction
> was specifically and critically sought in the long program
> to abolish slavery, in England and here.
>
> In the absence of contradiction, it is correct to assume that
> Gov. Bush is sincere in citing God as the cause of that special
> heartbeat that changed his life. True, we are cynical in the
> age in which President Clinton goes from Easter Service to
> the adulterer's couch in a single day. But the great lesson
> of Elmer Gantry, the hypocritical preacher in the novel of
> Sinclair Lewis, isn't that man can deceive and surreptitiously
> defy the very laws that he preaches. It is, rather, that the
> laws of behavior that guide the Judeo-Christian world are
> everlastingly relevant in part because they are so regularly
> traduced.
>
> So yes, one can criticize the political candidate who cites
> Christ in answer to a question having to do with political
> philosophy. But this only on the grounds that the grandiosity
> is on the order of citing air as your favorite food. Forgetting
> that, it is invigorating, in a secular age in which the
> exhibition of the Ten Commandments is cited as profane
> constitutional behavior, to have it straight from such as
> Mr. Bush what it is that he thinks of first in the search
> for priorities.
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