Building on my post from a couple of weeks ago about the imago Dei as the "person-in-community," the theology of the image of God has social, moral and political implications.
I intuitively knew that I cannot trust certain conservatives after they were outed as homosexuals. It doesn’t matter how conservative they are fiscally. You explained my (and many other’s) intuition. This article will be saved and reread.
The problem with state surveillance is not so much just the consequences, but the inherent failure of a state which already approves of immorality, watching over you. When the state is unjust and their surveillance is contingent on policing everything *but* the very behaviours you describe, it becomes a problem. Surveillance is not needed when just law and just courts are in place. It can only come out of corruption, and perhaps hatred which endangers our safety. I think the good formulation here is the state's surveillance should *only* be done in the military context. Surveillance is an extension of securing our rights to freedom from danger, where our privacy comes second (most advocates of 'privacy' really mean watching pornography or other immorality tbh).
I don’t think he’s arguing for state surveillance, more like surveillance from gossipy neighbors, hah. Which does have downsides, but also helps strengthen a community in the best cases.
You note that in real communities a moral order is imposed. You also note that at present limits on language are imposed to deter expressions of differences. The former is, presumably, a community premised on faith of some sort, or at least a recognized shared humanity. The latter is the moral sensibility that exists at present. How are these distinguishable? Both are moral orders in their own right. It can be argued that it is preferable to have moral order emerge upwards, from the people to the government, as was the hope of the Founding Fathers, rather than devolving down, from the government to the people, as is the hope of many.
Much of what is seen today is, as you write, a notion of liberty that is libertine in character and scope. A notion of liberty that is rooted in faith or in acknowledgement of obligations to others seems to be unwanted.
What happens as mass society undermines organic communities, is that the previous morality that existed is abstracted, rationalized and universalized and adjusted to conform to the needs of the regime operating at a mass scale, whether in government, business or even non-profits like large churches. A simulacrum of organic morality is imposed through technical means. It might, say in the case of a large conservative mass church, even have the same content as before, but now it is imposed technically by means of propaganda and though mechanism of control like small groups that mimic real community are not the same thing.
Don't forget where deviancy spreads like wildfire - among outcasts.
Whoever wants to bring community back together needs to understand that pushing for conformity sometimes creates a backlash stronger than the intended effect.
Sex is quite literally how we make children. Forget this at your own peril.
Not the kind of sex this guy is worried about
I intuitively knew that I cannot trust certain conservatives after they were outed as homosexuals. It doesn’t matter how conservative they are fiscally. You explained my (and many other’s) intuition. This article will be saved and reread.
Thanks!
The problem with state surveillance is not so much just the consequences, but the inherent failure of a state which already approves of immorality, watching over you. When the state is unjust and their surveillance is contingent on policing everything *but* the very behaviours you describe, it becomes a problem. Surveillance is not needed when just law and just courts are in place. It can only come out of corruption, and perhaps hatred which endangers our safety. I think the good formulation here is the state's surveillance should *only* be done in the military context. Surveillance is an extension of securing our rights to freedom from danger, where our privacy comes second (most advocates of 'privacy' really mean watching pornography or other immorality tbh).
I don’t think he’s arguing for state surveillance, more like surveillance from gossipy neighbors, hah. Which does have downsides, but also helps strengthen a community in the best cases.
Actually, they don’t
Hope that helps!
You note that in real communities a moral order is imposed. You also note that at present limits on language are imposed to deter expressions of differences. The former is, presumably, a community premised on faith of some sort, or at least a recognized shared humanity. The latter is the moral sensibility that exists at present. How are these distinguishable? Both are moral orders in their own right. It can be argued that it is preferable to have moral order emerge upwards, from the people to the government, as was the hope of the Founding Fathers, rather than devolving down, from the government to the people, as is the hope of many.
Much of what is seen today is, as you write, a notion of liberty that is libertine in character and scope. A notion of liberty that is rooted in faith or in acknowledgement of obligations to others seems to be unwanted.
What happens as mass society undermines organic communities, is that the previous morality that existed is abstracted, rationalized and universalized and adjusted to conform to the needs of the regime operating at a mass scale, whether in government, business or even non-profits like large churches. A simulacrum of organic morality is imposed through technical means. It might, say in the case of a large conservative mass church, even have the same content as before, but now it is imposed technically by means of propaganda and though mechanism of control like small groups that mimic real community are not the same thing.
Don't forget where deviancy spreads like wildfire - among outcasts.
Whoever wants to bring community back together needs to understand that pushing for conformity sometimes creates a backlash stronger than the intended effect.
Practice an economy of words.
I quickly gave up reading your article very because your just kept going on-and-on.
Your message might have been worthwhile. But I will never know.
Christians have a Cuckold consciousness longing for the days they belonged to to the Muslims
Nice easy mute there.