tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4643814382859305697.post9114695364811553294..comments2021-12-12T16:09:36.885-05:00Comments on compass headings: Not unity, but civilityPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03427059903399181556noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4643814382859305697.post-25789540986776403212017-06-16T19:56:52.854-04:002017-06-16T19:56:52.854-04:00Good entry. You've pulled together and laid o...Good entry. You've pulled together and laid out nicely several "realities" that need to faced. What's the way out. What are some ways to betterment?<br /><br />Why has discourse and unity degraded so, and so quickly?<br /><br />I just finished preparing and giving a short talk on "Natural Law and some practical consequences of it" to some Catholic men. <br /><br />It occurred to me during my preparation that natural law was designed by God to not only give everyone a common set of behavioral aiming points (in fact, one, Him), whether they were Christians, Jew, Islamic, nones, atheist, but it was also designed to give them a common bare language to communicate: "good" "life" "liberty" "common good" etc. We really don't have these conversational building blocks anymore, certainly not a shared understanding of them. <br /><br />While the natural law is put into us by God, it can be rejected, suppressed, distorted, dismissed by people overcome by vice and sin. Our intellect gets clouded, and our will flabby. <br /><br />The intellect's purpose is to discover the true, and the will's purpose is to do the good. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com