@HStromeyer3500@BishopBarron That’s the issue. If a person didn’t think what they observed might have a rational cause, that person would not look for one. The scientific method developed in a culture that believed empirical observations had rational causes because it has a rational creator.
@HStromeyer3500@BishopBarron Science has not proven the world is intelligible, the scientific method assumes empirical observations have a rational cause. Even if we don’t know what that cause is we assume it it’s not magic.
@BishopBarron Every experiment I ran as an engineer assumed the world makes sense. Science measures the patterns. It can't tell you why there are patterns at all, or what they're for. That's where wisdom picks up. Not against science, beyond it. Faith and reason were never rivals.
@sitsio@catholicEW@CatholicBishops Did you really write this? “researchers want to understand the attraction of tradition, ritual, masculinity, community and the search for meaning.” 😂 😂 😂
In the 1912 essay “The Barbarians” Belloc says the mark of the barbarian is that he wants the goods of civilization without the hard virtues and discipline that created them:
“The Barbarian hopes—and that is the very mark of him—that he can have his cake and eat it too. He will consume what civilisation has slowly produced after generations of selection and effort but he will not be at pains to replace such goods nor indeed has he a comprehension of the virtue that has brought them into being. Discipline seems to him irrational, on which account he is for ever marvelling that civilisation should have offended him with priests and soldiers.”
Pro-Palestine activists tried to cancel Jewish-owned restaurants in Philadelphia today with a boycott ride.
Instead? Massive lines wrapped around the block to support them.
You try to intimidate our local businesses, the community shows up in force.
You love to see it! 🇺🇸