Posts Tagged ‘higher law’
Locke: An Eternal Rule to All Men
Daily Dabble in the Classics, John Locke he law of nature stands as an eternal rule to all men, legislators as well as others. The rules that they make for other men's actions, must, as well as their own and other men's actions, be conformable to the law of nature, i.e. to the will of God, of which that is a declaration, and the fundamental law [...]
Hold Up the Standard of Truth — Orson F. Whitney
Prophet Statesmen, Orson F. Whitney Excerpt from Orson F. Whitney's General Conference address, April 1915 p. 100. We cannot safely substitute anything for the Gospel. We have no right to take the theories of men, however scholarly, however learned, and set them up as a standard, and try to make the Gospel bow down to them; making of them an [...]
Moral Anarchy: Seedbed of Tyranny, by Steve Montgomery
Ok, so it's a bad movie. But even bad movies can have great lessons. I speak of the 1999 theatrical flop, "Wild Wild West." In this movie, set in post Civil War America, President Grant (Kevin Cline), has a great line, which as it turns out, bears great application to our modern American culture. Upon learning to his surprise that the arch-villain [...]
Private Property: Right From God, Friend of Republics, by Steve Farrell
Missing the Mark With Religion, Part 18 To possess a memory is to be blessed with a priceless good. It is our link to the past, our guidepost to the present and our passport to the future. It is who we are, what we believe and how we fit in. It is that fixed vantage point in a world of confusion that gives us a degree of security, stability and [...]
Why ‘One Nation Under God’ Matters, by Steve Farrell
Missing the Mark With Religion, Part 16 "One nation under God" was the nasty little phrase that aroused the righteous indignation of the infamous 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to strike down the Pledge of Allegiance as unconstitutional, and still inspires secularists of various stripes to oppose it today. That the voluntary recitation of [...]
Liberty Letters: De Tocqueville on the Christian Influence for Equality
The religion which declares that all are equal in the sight of God, will not refuse to acknowledge that all citizens are equal in the eye of the law. Religion is the companion of liberty in all its battles and all it conflicts; the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims. - Alexis de Tocqueville, as quoted in Edwin Hall's "The [...]
