I consistently admire your apparent willingness to engage with the uninformed and those not interested in truth and reason. I have not read all the authors you cite -- enough of them to have understood the importance of the principles to live a well-ordered life with deep love for my family. Thomas Aquinas is indeed a primer to understand all the others cited.
I try. X is an interesting opportunity to challenge people who automatically oppose something without ever considering why they oppose it in real time. I don't usually let people off the hook who tell me I am wrong without telling me why.
These critics who are so eager to leverage our religious convictions to serve their political ends are hypocrites because the only “god” whom they serve is their quest for partisan power.
Michael, didn't expect to wake up this morning and read that you have been discussing Aquinas. Love it. As an LCMS Lutheran, with one foot firmly planted in Catholic theology (not hierarchy, necessarily) I love reading and trying to grasp what the Early Church Fathers were trying to say. If people would take the time to read them, and have an open mind with a nod to discernment, I believe it would be good for current discourse about the times in which we live. Ecclesiastes 1:9 comes to mind frequently. Thanks Michael.
Michael, you continue to amaze. Showing the link between Aristotelian and (can I say?) Catholic doctrine is wonderful. So well done.
-- And in a very practical sense, getting into a large debate on X is good fodder for the algorithm. "I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right." --George M. Cohan (yes, I know P.T. Barnum... but Cohan has so much more class. )
Well, I am limited by my Mississippi Public School education and tend to be a mile wide and an inch deep, but I give it the old non-Ivy League college try.
Excellent. The exemplar of your argument is Joan of Arc, a French Catholic who killed plenty of English Catholics in order to protect her neighbors’ way of life.
It is interesting that so many who are eager to recite "Love your neighbor as yourself" from the Bible as a guide for policy also insist on the total and absolute separation of church & state.
I was just drawn into the discussion by reading an article about what was going on. I can think of no better place for that debate, at least for me. I saw one of your responses. Almost every comment I saw, like yours, was correct in the defense of the hierarchy of our love in practical terms. While I suspect that most of those who did disagree would still love and care for their family and neighbors, first, before running off to help a stranger across the globe, it just doesn't signal virtue as much as saying the opposite.
"Illegal Alien" is the term used in the statutes, making it the legal term to use. None of this "migrant", undocumented non-citizen, or and "unregistered citizen".
I consistently admire your apparent willingness to engage with the uninformed and those not interested in truth and reason. I have not read all the authors you cite -- enough of them to have understood the importance of the principles to live a well-ordered life with deep love for my family. Thomas Aquinas is indeed a primer to understand all the others cited.
I try. X is an interesting opportunity to challenge people who automatically oppose something without ever considering why they oppose it in real time. I don't usually let people off the hook who tell me I am wrong without telling me why.
These critics who are so eager to leverage our religious convictions to serve their political ends are hypocrites because the only “god” whom they serve is their quest for partisan power.
HEAR, HEAR!
It’s quite rich to be critiqued and lectured on one’s Bible-based beliefs and understanding by those who have none.
Michael, didn't expect to wake up this morning and read that you have been discussing Aquinas. Love it. As an LCMS Lutheran, with one foot firmly planted in Catholic theology (not hierarchy, necessarily) I love reading and trying to grasp what the Early Church Fathers were trying to say. If people would take the time to read them, and have an open mind with a nod to discernment, I believe it would be good for current discourse about the times in which we live. Ecclesiastes 1:9 comes to mind frequently. Thanks Michael.
Michael, you continue to amaze. Showing the link between Aristotelian and (can I say?) Catholic doctrine is wonderful. So well done.
-- And in a very practical sense, getting into a large debate on X is good fodder for the algorithm. "I don't care what you say about me, as long as you say something about me, and as long as you spell my name right." --George M. Cohan (yes, I know P.T. Barnum... but Cohan has so much more class. )
Well, I am limited by my Mississippi Public School education and tend to be a mile wide and an inch deep, but I give it the old non-Ivy League college try.
Excellent. The exemplar of your argument is Joan of Arc, a French Catholic who killed plenty of English Catholics in order to protect her neighbors’ way of life.
It is interesting that so many who are eager to recite "Love your neighbor as yourself" from the Bible as a guide for policy also insist on the total and absolute separation of church & state.
I was just drawn into the discussion by reading an article about what was going on. I can think of no better place for that debate, at least for me. I saw one of your responses. Almost every comment I saw, like yours, was correct in the defense of the hierarchy of our love in practical terms. While I suspect that most of those who did disagree would still love and care for their family and neighbors, first, before running off to help a stranger across the globe, it just doesn't signal virtue as much as saying the opposite.
Great article and thank you for using illegal alien and not Migrant in reference to the invading armies crossing our boarders.
"Illegal Alien" is the term used in the statutes, making it the legal term to use. None of this "migrant", undocumented non-citizen, or and "unregistered citizen".