Douglas:
You wrote:
>> You need some absolute limits on human behavior. You cannot leave morality 100% in an individual's choice. We need to acknowledge the absollute moral limits laid down by God. Otherwise we have chaos.<<
You sir, are in error.
Morality was basically left 100% in the hands (and minds) of the individual by the original fathers of the USA. We need to acknowledge the morality of this and how *legislated* morality has led to schools that cannot teach, rights that do not exist, abuse of illegal political power, the disintegration of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, etc.
The proper role of government is not to regulate morality, but to protect individual rights. Altruistic government programs, taxation and most government regulation is immoral, sometimes criminal.
Ancient Greece produced the ethics and morality that Rome (when it was a true Republic) and later the USA (when it was a true Republic) built on. It produced some of the greatest minds in the world, including one of the greatest philosophers: Aristotle. Aristotle. . . a man who could have talked rings around Christ's immoral philosophy and anti-man ethics.
Where was the choas within Greek intellectual thought. Their primary error was the city-state mode of self-government which often led to rivalries and battles amongst themselves.
Father Terrence |
