My Hope That The Church Will Emerge

My Eyes Are Wide Open To The Conflicts Within The Church, But I Don't Think You Can Call It Schism.

The First Thing To Say About Politics Is That Politics Is Not The First Thing.

Determined Secularists View These As Residual Inconsistencies That They Have Not Yet Go Around To Extirpating And That May Not Be Worth Bothering About... Form The Secularist Perspective It May Be That The Essential Battles Have Been Won And Excessive Zeal In Pressing A Final Mopping-up Operation Might Only Excited Further Public Hostility.

In Legal Parlance, That Is Called 'the Rational Person Test,' ... That's Where Somebody Else Says, 'even Though We Have No Idea What This Person Would Want In This Circumstance In Which They Cannot Themselves Tell Us What They Want, A 'rational' Person - Meaning, Myself - In That Circumstance Would Want To Die.' So You Move Very Quickly From So-called Voluntary Euthanasia To Involuntary Euthanasia. These Legal And Medical Developments Are Not Simply Hypothetical They're In The Courts Right Now.

If A Church Offers No Truth That Is Not Available In The General Culture - In, For Instance, The Editorials Of The New York Times Or, For That Matter, Of National Review - There Is Not Much Reason To Pay It Attention.