Religion in Schools (split fm Islamic Terrorism)

[Kirkhill]

US troops could disobey questionable orders, Catholic archbishop says

The Catholic archbishop overseeing the church's work with members of the U.S. military said it would be "morally acceptable" for troops to disobey orders that went against their consciences.

www.reuters.com

And this is precisely what the battle over schools is about.

It is also the reason that Henry separated from Rome, that the Whigs and Tories were both reluctant to let the Pope regain a voice in their politics, and why the Pope was so adamant that Catholic kids be schooled separately from the heretics.

Whose version of right is right?

 

[Kirkhill]

And apparently religion matters on seized tankers as well.

US Coast Guard Requests Pastoral Support for Shadow Fleet Tanker's Crew

Military and security actions can create hardship for seafarers when ships get caught in the middle of a geopolitical confrontation, as seen all too...

maritime-executive.com

 

[Kirkhill]

The conundrum well expressed

How might Catholics respond to authoritarian actions?

"There are the countless examples of ordinary Catholics who work hard each day to live out the Gospel's call to care for the least of these," writes NCR's Michael J. O'Loughlin.

www.ncronline.org

Who does social justice serve?

Franco and Mussolini or the IRA? Or John F. Kennedy and the Latin American church opposing death squads?

 

[Kirkhill]

I guess I must have triggered an algorithm....

French Catholics are still under the shadow of Vichy - The Tablet

Shortly before Christmas, the French MEP Marion Maréchal was part of a smallish group from the far-right European Conservatives and Reformists Group in the

www.thetablet.co.uk

I'll have to find some decent witch-burnings by Covenanters to even the score a bit.

 

[Fishbone Jones]

We did three things in the morning before lessons.

We would sing O Canada, God Save the Queen and recite the Lord's prayer. All while facing the Queens picture and the Red Ensign. If you didn't want to participate, you stood there and stayed shtum.

 

[Kirkhill]

Metaphysics is crap.

Return to the Enlightenment.

Is Metaphysics Useful?

To understand the ultimate nature of reality, philosophers could learn more from elephants than traditional armchair metaphysics untethered to Earth

www.psychologytoday.com

To Ross, the Enlightenment’s core achievement was the liberation of inquiry from dogma, superstitions, and biases that characterized so much of human history. By returning to pure “armchair” theorizing, detached from the empirical sciences, analytic metaphysics effectively offers a counter-revolution: a means of investigation immune from any progress in the sciences.

Is metaphysics (the study of the ultimate foundation of reality) useful? I will argue that a substantive part of the literature is not - or what we call analytic metaphysics. Here, philosophers focus largely on pure armchair analysis, engaged in trying to understand the nature of reality by investigated their own intuitions.

Analytic metaphysicians are perhaps the least constrained by real events among all analytic philosophers. But in this they reflect a unique weakness of our species, not a strength. It is all too easy for our species to dream up castles in the sky. The Enlightenment, rather than reflecting our true nature, was a hard-won achievement, and an unstable one at that must be continually defended.