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Thursday, July 28. 2011

A Primer on Natural Law

On this video, Dr. Buziszewski teaches, or preaches, what I have been teaching and preaching for years about the region in which religion, morality, and psychology are intertwined, inseparable. This is a good primer on the topic.


Whether you agree or not, it's an important concept.


 


Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss at 17:48 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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He mentioned adultery, theft and murder as morally wrong. I would agree that theft and murder are wrong, but not adultery.
It's a society based convention or a contractual agreement, but not a Natural Law.
Would polygamy make adultery acceptable?
#1 EarlW on 2011-07-28 18:27 (Reply)
Sorry - "Natural" law is only natural and obvious to those who've already grown up under Judeo-Christian influence.

Take off the Judeo-Christian lenses and people are most definitely NOT "created equal" - nor do hairless monkeys adrift on this clod of earth have "inalienable rights".

And when Western societies sever their links to Judeo-Christian values, they quickly slide back to neo-pagan inequality, debasement, and oppression.

Hitler and Stalin are the two most glaring examples... and in modern post-Christian Europe, the rising acceptability of infanticide and euthanasia - and the reduction of sexual relations to any mutually-agreed trade, however exploitative - are both clear indications that pagan might-makes-right relativism has replaced any notion of transcendent human worth.

None of these "natural" laws are obvious outside the orbit of Jewish influence.
#2 Ben David on 2011-07-30 15:16 (Reply)

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