#universal principles

Here's the kicker. While most of the Ten Commandments involve Universal Principles and moral precepts that can be found in the Bible, not everyone draws ethical guidelines from religion. When the 10 Commandments say thou shalt have no other gods before me the implication is there is one true God. That is decidedly not true for all Americans line by line. Most of the Ten Commandments involve Universal Principles.

What makes a Universal Principle? Notice she gets it backwards. I think good evidence that a principle is universal is that it's in the Ten Commandments because those come from God Himself. She thinks it goes other way around. Well no, it's just that we know the universal principles and maybe some of Christianity fits into that. Well okay, where do you get your Universal Principles from? She's maybe deduced those principles from reason. Okay I believe in that. I'm a natural law guy. I believe that the natural law is inscribed on every human heart, and that we can know universal moral truths through reason.

We can know the existence of God with certainty from human reason. How do you know your reason is reliable? How do you know that? Why can you trust what your reason says in as much as you trust it? The only way that it's possible is if the universe is intelligible, and if there is an intelligence which created the universe, and if you have some of that intelligence. If, in other words, you are made in the image and likeness of God.

To trust your own reason, to come to certain conclusions about universal moral principles or whatever implies, -whether you want to admit it or not- that you believe in God. To attack Christianity for saying -and Judaism for saying- Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me, the implication is that there's one true God.

Well yeah, I mean if there's such a thing as God at all, which they're necessarily must be, then there will be a true God. There will be lots of false gods, and because of that, we can distinguish between truth and falsehood using our reason.

That's how you supposedly came to your Universal Principles lady, and she obviously believes that there is one true God. For her it's the one true God of liberalism which is really just the worship of the self. She's saying that Christians your God is false. My liberal God is true, and you will bow down before my liberal God, and you will shut up and get out of public life. That's what she's saying that there's one true God (and she and her cronies decide what it is)..

That is decidedly not true for all Americans. No you're saying that all Americans should worship only the self. The problem with that is then you have a lot of different little gods. You're all very jealous Gods, -all of you individuals- and so you're going to impose your irrational will on everybody by telling Christians to shut up in public life. Your religious values are not American values. Forgive them Father they know not what they do.

The ignorance is striking because you know 50 or 60 or 70 years ago a grade school child would understand the basic aspects of American history that this New York Times journalist denies. It's the obliviousness what she speaks out against as being authoritarian and infringing on the religious rights of others in Christianity. She herself is imposing in a far more authoritarian and irrational way. They don't even know. Yes, the journalists lie. Yes, the journalists are corrupt and deceptive, but they're also just so ignorant and oblivious. You don't know. If you ever attempted to give them credit, you do not have to do it.