In the modern, secular world, the average citizen has lost the appreciation of just how fundamental religious identity is to our basic existence. The secularist – remote to the religious experience all about them each and every day – sees religion as a membership in an organization; a simple choice that can be flipped with … Continue reading The Commonality of Faith
The Moral Argument – Humanism
Recently, a good friend of mine read my essay on Pluralism & Relativism, and asked the question if I could comment on Secular Humanism. As I had started a series of moral arguments, it seemed practical that the next one may as well be on such an “ism”. I also have to note, with great … Continue reading The Moral Argument – Humanism
The Rights of Evil – Part 8.
God’s Biological Love – The Second-Person Relationship “People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other.” Martin Luther King Jr. The second obstacle to the secularist goal, is the natural superiority … Continue reading The Rights of Evil – Part 8.
The Rights of Evil – Part 7.
God’s Biological Society – The Family The first component, and an obstacle to the secularist goal, is the authority of the genetic family. There is no continuation of the species of man without procreation. As such, it is the physical center of humanity and has been such since man climbed out of the mud of … Continue reading The Rights of Evil – Part 7.
The Rights of Evil – Part 6.
God’s Nature – What Man Resists God’s nature is love in the full, self-sacrificial form. To experience Him is to feel at first an impulse to the kindness one should show to others, and given good soil to grow in, it becomes a devotion to the demotion of one’s personal desires for the good of … Continue reading The Rights of Evil – Part 6.