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Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’

  • Politics,
  • Religion
February 26, 2024February 29, 2024
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…groups. There is only the international, multicultural Church, the Bride of Christ. However, the laws and rulers of a nation, and the customs of a culture, even without any covenant,…

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Bringing Back the Great Commission? 

  • Religion
November 3, 2023November 4, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…wrong. But we also must be careful to distinguish between morality, which is universal, and propriety, which is relative and a matter of ‘manners and customs’. In either case, our…

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The Link Between Sports and Democracy

  • Culture,
  • Politics
August 21, 2023August 24, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…impressed with the superior morality of athletes – far from it! And yet the necessary customs of competitive sports are very similar to those required for a functioning democracy. It…

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Pornographic Ideas?

  • Culture,
  • Politics
April 20, 2021December 7, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…propriety lays down how much of the human body can be displayed and what subjects can be referred to, and in what words, according to the customs of a given…

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Individual Responsibility in Ezekiel

  • Culture,
  • Religion
September 11, 2020September 1, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…that people have made in the past—many of which were not improper in the manners and customs of their time. Yet we purge, punish, and unemploy them today. And if…

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Does the Working Class Think It Can’t ‘Afford’ to Raise Their Children in a Christian Environment Any More?

  • Culture,
  • Religion
April 9, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…their customs, when they’re not believers, allow for ‘protected’ non-procreative sex during dating and cohabitation, and child-bearing waits until after the wedding. At the same time, they do not seem…

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Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama

  • Politics
January 13, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…[of my ‘five kingdoms’, only two—the family and manners/customs/languages—are not dominated by Organizations]. I understand that an absolute ‘Rule of Law and not of humans’ [to phrase it in a…

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A Croatia Travelogue

  • Miscellaneous
September 27, 2019December 9, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…experience because both Edinburgh and Dubrovnik are outside the ‘Schengen’ customs union, while Madrid is in it – so we had to leave the regular line, take a staircase and…

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Another Way of Bypassing the Restrictions on Criminal Law

  • Culture
September 7, 2018August 16, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

…my recent post on manners and customs, I say that manners and customs, like morals, need both Virtues [kindness and all that, and the brand new virtue of ‘empathy’, which…

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More on Manners and Customs

  • Culture
July 26, 2018August 24, 2023
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Some more issues on the issue of Manners and Customs. The issue of enforcement. Disobedience to Manners is enforced, let it be said, by discrimination and exclusion. Sometimes the person…

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