ΚΣΒΣΧΣ The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail... - T.S. Eliot ♰
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Three thoughts on the Noahic covenant (NC) and natural law (NL).
1. If the NC grounds NL, either metaphysically or epistemologically, then it is covenantal law, not NL. NL must be knowable by natural means, for nature itself is the proximate instructor.
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Fresh out of highschool I spent 6 months in 3 countries on the southern end of Africa. About 2.5 of that was in South Africa, and I met some wonderful Dutch Reformed Afrikaner men. They showed me the villain Nelson Mandela actually was. They showed me beautiful cities now overtaken by crime. Cities that had metal boxes for babies to be put in to try to stop the rampant abortions.
I watched from the inside of barbed-wire fences as crowds chanted at me “kill the Boer.”
This short list only describes a little of what I saw while there and it was there my public school education began washing away.
Something that always stuck with me was one day when one of these wise Afrikaner men said to me “America, your home is only 10 years behind us.”
At the time, I had no context to even begin to understand what he inferred by saying this, but now almost 10 years later I see it clearly.
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The First Families of Virginia were not founded by gentlemen
They were founded by used car salesmen along the frontier, essentially
Their sons were different. Leavened by the Cavalier influence, they sailed to England for school and the Middle Temple. They learned their Plutarch, read their Livy, studied their law, and came home with a very different conception of life and what it was all about
It was they who used the fortunes their fathers had made to become the Virginia gentry
What matters far more than how he who made the money acts is how his heirs act once they inherit it. They did that well
We now have a similar opportunity. We're about to have the first real generation of inheritors in a very long time, and to what that leads is an immense and open question
This is why writing, speaking, and thinking about these things is important: we need to push this in a good direction theamericantribune.news/p/do…
Nvm that Smith’s secular sociology flattens distinct traditions. Lumping Burke in w/ Rousseau misses how classical & trad thinkers viewed nations: not as sovereign absolutes overriding all loyalties (#2), but as natural, inherited communities w/ layered allegiances. 👎🏻 He's wrong
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I can RDL 425lbs for reps of 5, but I can't pick up my 5 yr old son to put him to bed. What the heck?
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So true. Excellent article. I am pious.
“Since grace relativizes nature, spouses should not sit with one another at church.”
“Since in the church there is neither male nor female, nor Jew or Greek, spouses should not sit with one another.”
“Since we are one and equal in Christ, we should not show partiality to our spouses, so spouses should not sit together in church.”
“Since there is no marriage in heaven, and the church is an outpost of heaven, spouses should not sit together in church.”
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It'd be a prayer answered.
The emergency suspension of Congress is a necessary prerequisite to save this nation. History shows that there is no eternal constitutional order, none have outlasted the metapolitical lifecycle. A constitutional crisis is inevitable, because America is not exempt from history.
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I’m doing what I advocate, tribalizing, networking, living our culture and ethics, encouraging the growth of connected families, training for resiliency and security, cultivating local political power etc
When will I see the “no political solution guys” go into action?
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You don’t appoint Stephen Miller chief of staff and grant mass amnesty. Are you all new here?
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“Now it is part of our love for our brother that we hate the fault and the lack of good in him, since desire for another's good is equivalent to hatred of his evil.” Aquinas, ST II-II.34.3
People may be lawful objects of hate for the Christian. We may hate their sin for their good, and we may hate their sin for the public good.
So, hate is due to some people “in respect of what he has of himself and from the devil, i.e. in respect of sin and lack of justice.”
Good thread
I’ve tried my best to stay out of a lot of right wing disagreements. I was more of a doubter on Trump Admin over the last year, but didn’t see any benefit in publicly attacking the loudest Plan Trusters. But now I want to offer my opinion on Stephen Miller, especially as it relates to the Iran War.
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The @NCGOP had terrible messaging. All negative ads with little to nothing to offer the electorate. They naively believed there was momentum left after the 2024 election. This is the only way I can explain it. We can't pretend the Dems just solved some sort of complex problem...
North Carolina elections:
What in the world did we just witness?
Read WRAL’s coverage explaining what happened, what’s ongoing, and what’s next. THREAD (1/7) #ncpol
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