I commented yesterday, but another memory came to me, relating to the subtitle, the old question going back at least to Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?" I graduated with a degree in Christian education from the old Cincinnati Bible College in 1972. In a class on "Philosophy of Education" the professor gave us what he called "a working definition of truth." Truth is the degree of correspondence between "what is" and what is said about "what is." The stronger the correspondence, the more truth. An absolute correspondence would be an absolute truth. This is important to remember in an age where people are trying to say "truth is relative" or "your truth" or "my truth." The problem is, no matter how much you like your idea, or how much you want to believe it, or how much your friends like it...eventually it has to be put out to face the Real World--and the Real World, created and ruled by God Almighty, always wins.
Postmodern Redneck
Something we have heard for years is "you can't legislate morality." The truth is, all law is an attempt to legislate morality; it's a matter of whose morality, and how much.
Also, I have heard it emphasized that even the lowliest regulation is, in the end, enforceable at the point of a gun. Even a "keep off the grass" sign.
I commented yesterday, but another memory came to me, relating to the subtitle, the old question going back at least to Pontius Pilate, "What is truth?" I graduated with a degree in Christian education from the old Cincinnati Bible College in 1972. In a class on "Philosophy of Education" the professor gave us what he called "a working definition of truth." Truth is the degree of correspondence between "what is" and what is said about "what is." The stronger the correspondence, the more truth. An absolute correspondence would be an absolute truth. This is important to remember in an age where people are trying to say "truth is relative" or "your truth" or "my truth." The problem is, no matter how much you like your idea, or how much you want to believe it, or how much your friends like it...eventually it has to be put out to face the Real World--and the Real World, created and ruled by God Almighty, always wins.
Something we have heard for years is "you can't legislate morality." The truth is, all law is an attempt to legislate morality; it's a matter of whose morality, and how much.
Exactly!
Also, I have heard it emphasized that even the lowliest regulation is, in the end, enforceable at the point of a gun. Even a "keep off the grass" sign.