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What would it take to be an abortion advocate?
Being a student of human nature I continuously seek to understand why people think the way they do. My primary means is to ask them, but I also imagine what it would be like to believe what they believe and what it would take for me to do so. I often ponder what it would […]... Read More
Word, Meaning, and Interpretation
Words without interpretation are meaningless. Words with improper interpretation become subjective falsehoods. The only foolproof way of knowing the right interpretation of words is to be informed by the one who has spoken them. This is an important principle. So too, the divine Word without proper interpretation becomes something false in the subjective minds of […]... Read More
Nature vs. Ideology: Revulsion can be good as the soul’s warning to avoid evil
NATURE. Human beings have a natural adversity to unnatural behaviors, usually taking the form of disgust or anger. This is normal and healthy. Disgust recognizes perversion and anger seeks to right an injustice. How one chooses to respond to this natural interior reaction is the ethical question, i.e. productively or destructively. Every child and every […]... Read More
Relationships in the 21st Century
Question to ponder, taken from the general theme of my May 2018 VP COLUMN: “How many people have poor self esteem due to feeling used, being dumped, or feeling they have wasted prime time in their lives waiting for a ‘commitment-phobe’? Too many to imagine. There may be number of reasons, but the important question […]... Read More