"I think love for one’s country means chiefly love for people who have a good deal in common with oneself (language, clothes, institutions) & in that is very like love of one’s family."
~ CS Lewis
If your family settled Jamestown in 1607, you’re an invader with no claim to this stolen land.
If your Chinese mom pops you out in Guam tomorrow, America is your birthright.
The gospel does not alter political principles, political ends, or political means. It only specifies the objects of policy (eg., promoting true religion means promoting Christianity).
Good luck to Trump and the GOP without Catholics, Muslims, anti-war voters, fiscal hawks, immigration hawks, prospective home-buyers, anybody who wanted the Epstein Files, anybody who watches Tucker, Alex Jones, Megyn Kelly, & Candace.
But hey at least they’re popular in Israel.
“It is common to hear, “Traditional or contemporary is a matter of preference.” People who say this rarely consider how preferences are formed. It is better to have preferences shaped by the wisdom of those who came before us than a preference for novelty.”
The world of change derives its meaning from the world that does not. Thus, the unchanging ideas cannot be attributed to the minds of ever-changing men.
The universal ideas exist within the mind of the One who transcends the cosmos He created.
Philosophy ought to be defined as the contemplation of universal ideas. We come to recognize these ideas as we encounter them in the particular. Take, for instance, a tree. There are approximately 73,000 known species of trees, yet all are recognizably trees.
It is absurd to assume that the eternal can emerge from the temporal. By definition, the eternal is more real than the temporal. This is not to say that the temporal is an illusion, but that it is lesser in degree—contingent upon that which does not change.