Manners, Customs, and Languages: The Spontaneous, A-Rational Kingdom
…gospel, that I may share in its blessings. Maybe someone else can find a better passage to be the ‘Romans 13’ of manners and customs. I can’t. Manners and customs…
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More on Manners and Customs
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…
Why I am not a Communitarian
…God-ordained sphere of authority. I speak of customs, cultures, and manners, including languages and their rules. We do not think of these, usually, as moral absolutes, but we try to…
The Political Meaning of ‘God’
…ordains not just manners but also morals, the family, and the state. ‘God’ means that while societies differ in manners and customs, ultimate right and wrong is not devised by…
Another Way of Bypassing the Restrictions on Criminal Law
…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…
A Manifesto: Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson
…ordains manners, customs, and languages. By ‘manners’ I mean those customs we share that we believe to be binding on our cultural group but not on everyone on the planet;…
The Strange American Inversion of the Liturgical Year
…observe the Christian Year; but it will be yet another way in which believing Christians stand against the culture, in addition to our sexual practices and our Holy Matrimony customs….
Is Hawai’i the Bellwether for California?
…daily friction with groups of different customs had worn away still more of their custom-made morality. [Caesar and Christ, p. 366] This sort of multiculturalism, however, had nothing to do…
God = Not Society and Not the Autonomous Individual
…society,” but society does not ordain our morals, our governments, or our family structure – it only ordains, in my view, our manners, customs, and languages. These really are relative….
Individual Responsibility in Ezekiel
…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…