Why I Am Not a ‘Christian Nationalist’
…manners, for all the evils of slavery, the treatment of the Indians, has been at times more or less influenced by Christian ideas. So we don’t have a Christian political…
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Bringing Back the Great Commission?
…according to culture. For example, the rules about eye contact differ from culture to culture, and therefore are issues of ‘manners’ rather than ‘morals’. And, we need to remind ourselves…
Pornographic Ideas?
…his epic Mere Christianity makes an important distinction between morality and propriety. Morality is transcendent; propriety is a part of manners, culturally determined, and truly relative. “The social rule of…
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…
Wherein I am Disappointed in My Political Guru, Francis Fukuyama
…[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…
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…
More on Manners and Customs
…by Virtue Manners, Rule Manners, and probably Consequential Manners. [Remember, the difference between the two is that Morals are absolute, and Manners are culturally relative.] Books on Manners generally specialize…
Welcome to My New Website!
…church and religion; the state; business and property ownership; and manners, customs, and languages [and there will be a section for stuff that doesn’t fit into that]. So, your comments…
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…
A Manifesto: Important Events That Shaped My Political Views – Howard Ahmanson
…It 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…