Since we don't have conservative Christian economists on this list. I think it is a liberal thing to do to be sure that we read a few of the people who Bush listens to. This man says he didn't vote for Bush. I suspect Bush is too liberal for him. I invited him to the list but he declined not very respectfully. But I think his view is important to know and answer. I'm sure that Kutlow and Kramer on MSNBC agree with the gist of what he says although they probably are not of his faith or rationalization. Both claim to have the ear of the White House.[snip]
REH
*Social Security and the Family
Yes, this guy puts the culprit right in the crosshairs: *the social*, AKA "civil society", which arose in the anti-religious European Enlightenment (a deistic God is only one more hypothesis entertained by materialistic scientists...)....
Voluntary relations among autonomous individuals are the problem (yes, I know, Social Security does not fully actualize this ideal, but the writer know that "give em an inch and they'll take an ell"...)!
Civil society need to go back where it came from, and the relations of blood: consanguinity, brotherhood in the Blood of Christ, the Fa/Motherland (the Blut in the Boden...) need to be restored! (In computer jargon, we'd call this: "Popping the stack")
But give credit where credit is due: These people know that "tolerance" is just what they have to put up with when they don't have the power to make God's will to be done on Earth as it is in Heaven. They understand the "devil's bargain" of the Enlightenment: "Every person can believe whatever they want as long as they don't try to foist it on anybody else". This pact ended the wars of religion, i.e., the endless bloodshed. These people are willing to pay the price of martyrdom (which is not really a cost but a benefit, anyway -- indeed, the greatest benefit of all!
Sunday is Fathers' Day
I've got a mental block -- I can't remember the Episcopal hymn that urges us to die for Christ symbolically like our fathers died for Christ bodily --> that's a wimpy hymn!
"Now let us praise famous men,
and our fathers who were before us"
(from the movie "Chariots of Fire")Yes, on what date do we celebrate Civil Society Day? Anybody know?
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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