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Most people seem to think that Christian thinkers were the originators of the thought of a “universal society of men” – the notion that became the idea of the Universal Church. Out of context, such a “universal society” sounds like your average globalist who seeks to remove any barriers on society at all, and the […]
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David Carlin: Natural law is good, as far as it goes, but Christian morality clarifies that natural law does not go nearly far enough.
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Brad Miner: Compassionate Christians we are, yet we’ll benefit from being more stoic. It’s the Cross we take on, not the world’s troubles.
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“In an age of decadence, the Stoic philosophy held together the civil social order of imperial Rome, and taught thinking men the nature of true freedom, which is not dependent upon swords and laws.” – Russell Kirk Piety Hill is the name given by the late Russell Kirk, the “Father of American Conservatism,”to his ancestral […]
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