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April 27, 2005
Church and State
Topics: Political News and commentariesThe Democratic leadership seems to have a problem with someone of faith and having religious values being appointed to the judiciary, prefering someone with no faith and secular-only values to "judge" over right and wrong, and the legal from the illegal, with a view toward secularizing America and de-Christianizing the nation. Regarding such a conflict over judicial nominees, can a nation that prohibits religious people from participating fully in civic life hold itself together as a civil society? So asks Democracy Project:
- Democracy Project
The conflict over judicial nominees, along with many other
contentious issues in our society, revolves around the role of religion
in public life. One of the more thoughtful posts I've read on the role
of religion in public life was posted by Marc Comtois at Anchors Rising. Comtois links to and quotes from a recent essay, the Deist Minimum, by the estimable Avery Cardinal Dulles, whose father was Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
While the essay is too long to attempt any synopsis here, the Cardinal is concerned with demonstrating that Thomas Jefferson, whose Deism was the most pronounced of any of the Founders, still understood that religion was necessary for the preservation of the Republic. Beyond that, Cardinal Dulles understands that the Deism of Jefferson's day was imbued with a Christian metaphysics and lived out in a society formed by Christian norms.
Here are Cardinal Dulles's closing paragraphs. The essay appeared in the January issue of First Things. Read more at Democracy Project ...
Posted by Hyscience at April 27, 2005 10:41 AM
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