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Cancel culture is nothing new. The exception is a culture where scandalous behavior WON'T get you shunned from society. Most societies have and continue to use social pressure and exclusion from society to enforce socially acceptable behavior. In fact, I'm willing to bet there probably are...

I am reminded of one of the first conversations I ever had with a Catholic early on in my journey of discovery to find the historic Faith. He was a Melkite Catholic. I've long wished I could run into him again. If I remember right he was a former Baptist who had converted and he taught at a...

Catholics should return to a Classical Metaphysical view of creation and thus "the environment". One of the major changes in thought that hallmarks modernity is the view of knowledge. In classical philosophy knowledge was viewed as its own reward. As Aristotle said in his Metaphysics, "All men...

I'm looking at those types of Questions not in terms of how they were done in the past, but in terms of how they could be done in ways that I would find acceptable and worthwhile. Of course, it must always be acknowledge that human nature always makes anything sticky. This is one of the reasons...

As stated in my previous post, I'm unsure of my own views on the topic. I have yet to hear any real argument either way. So far I have just heard the claims made one way or the other, essentially as self-evident. However, I can imagine a case being made something like this. First we would have...

Can you explain to me why it is a false dilemma? or what the equivocation was?

Obviously the cases are very different. If I may ask a question philosophy question of the educated philosopher. Which is the greater evil, that a person should suffer evil done to them? or that they should do evil themselves?

People shouldn't jump on bandwagons. <-- period Bandwagon jumping is the result of not thinking critically and carefully. However, I found most of the articles criticisms to be rather empty and really stretching. It essentially struck me that the author was upset with Peterson, because...

Well, considering you have basically refused to discuss it, I wouldn't know. I do find it entertaining how I asked about your viewpoint, and you proceeded to freak out and insult me and then imply that I'm somehow condemning you.

Sure, however, the degree to which this happens is often heavily exaggerated both by secular scholars who don't really know Church history very well, and by sectarian Christians who want excuses to dismiss and vilify historic Christianity. Another way of saying this... Would be to say that...

To me you have to distinguish between the technical forms of government, such as representative democracy, separation of powers, bicameral structure, and the philosophical principles that undergird specifically western liberal democracy, as opposed to any other kind of democracy we can imagine...

The notion of sovereignty and the modern state are closely aligned though. In the ancient and medieval mind, Sovereignty is a divinely bestowed authority that rests with a King. The Sovereign further is linked directly to the land. Not the ethnicity. The link of the Sovereign to the People is...

My apologies for not reading your 15 years of posts before asking about that one. If there are people who believe that cases of rape and incest justify abortion, why is it an eye roller to ask why they think that? IF you point out a belief that people hold, and someone asks "why?" and your...

Do you have anything meaningful to say, or just insults and personal attacks?

Sure, as you point out St. Augustine was also very influential on many of the Reformers. My point is not that nothing pre-modern is involved. What I am trying to get across is that Protestants have the attitude "my view of scripture is correct, and we disagree because you simply don't follow...

If there is punishment for not participating then yes, I would agree it is coercive. There doesn't have to be though. Catholics don't have an objection to praying with Protestants. Where Catholics would object is if the prayer was worded in such a way that it could be deemed to be praying to...

There is a long and rich mystical tradition in Christianity, though many modern Christians are not aware of it. However, one of the core tenets of Christian mysticism is that technique and method are secondary at best. In Christianity we are seeking not to achieve a state of mind, but to...

Ok, in your mind, why do rape and incest justify an abortion?

I assumed, or generalized, my apologies. I did also speak about Double Effect in my post, and it can work in some cases, but it is pretty limited.

I don't think I've ever met anyone who believes that God's wrath against the antichrist or the nations is going to fall on Christians. That has nothing to do with the question of whether or not Christians will be persecuted by the forces of evil, which the Bible clearly indicates will happen.