“To understand the doctrine of the cross, you got to be willing to embrace, accept, and feel the offense of the cross. —@TimKellerNYC
This worry is not just philosophical, it is also spiritual. The meaning of the world is enshrined in conceptions that science does not endorse: conceptions like beauty, goodness and the soul which grow in the thin top-soil of human discourse. This top-soil is quickly eroded when the flora are cleared from it, and nothing ever grows thereafter. You can see the process at work in the matter of sex. Human sexuality has usually been understood through ideas of love and belonging. An enchanted grove of literary ideas and images protected those conceptions, and lived within it happily -- or at any rate,with an unhappiness that they could manage and control. The sexologist clears all this tangled undergrowth away, to reveal the scientific truth of things: the animal organs, the unmoralized impulses, and the tingling sensations that figure in those grim reports on the behavior of American humanoids. The meaning of the experience plays no part in the scientific description. -Roger Scruton, Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey (2012)
Historically, as Hadrian knew, walls are needed only when neighboring societies are opposites—and when large numbers of migrants cross borders without necessarily wishing to become part of what they are fleeing to.These are harsh and ancient lessons about human nature, but they are largely true and timeless. -Victor Davis Hanson, "Writing on the Walls", Hoover Institution, Oct. 21, 2016
http://www.hoover.org/research/writing-walls
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