tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post9123866056774295977..comments2023-12-16T16:17:43.886+00:00Comments on Fr Ray Blake's Blog: Loss of Trust: the fruit of ModernismFr Ray Blakehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05584140126211527252noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-65976951381672136072012-08-24T14:51:03.961+01:002012-08-24T14:51:03.961+01:00Very well said Fr.Very well said Fr.KimHattonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03684437340870929578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-54106817166071260242012-08-22T09:06:35.710+01:002012-08-22T09:06:35.710+01:00This issue is dealt with in the first few chapters...This issue is dealt with in the first few chapters of Plato's Republic. One problem throughout is that the people who become politicians are the ones who are least suitable for the task, due to the process by which they become politicians.<br /><br />There seems to be slightly more trust in government and politicians in Sweden. There is a different history, the country is smaller and the institutional structures are different.<br /><br />Physiocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13682019625346594568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-49557576130844046112012-08-22T00:10:38.759+01:002012-08-22T00:10:38.759+01:00It has become axiomatic here in the US that one do...It has become axiomatic here in the US that one does not vote ‘for’ an acceptable candidate, but rather ‘against’ a worse candidate. We seldom have a candidate that people can really get behind and support. We choose one in order to avoid the alternative because we only have a choice of one or the other.<br /><br />For some time I have been of the view that there are few, if any, honest people in politics. Yes, many talk a good game (cfr. Obama in 2008) but the reality is that they are in hock to the Party System. Buck the party and you are on your own and - despite the best will in the world – you will not achieve anything.<br /><br />This is a far cry from our Founding Fathers who felt an obligation to serve a term or two for the public good and then went home to carry on their ‘real lives’. The politicians of today have a sense of entitlement - that they deserve to be re-elected again and again. And their motivation is not the public good, but their private ambition and the perks that attend thereto.<br /><br />And they will do anything, say anything or support anything that helps to keep them in office – honesty and integrity be damned!GORhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14313101159848740722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-20318384586901361642012-08-21T15:59:00.040+01:002012-08-21T15:59:00.040+01:00From "Lamentabili sane", these seem part...From "Lamentabili sane", these seem particularly apposite:-<br /><br />58. Truth is no more immutable than man himself, since it evolved with him, in him, and through him. <br /><br />63. The Church shows that she is incapable of effectively maintaining evangelical ethics since she obstinately clings to immutable doctrines which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.<br /><br />Rejecting these propositions would seem to be the bare minimum required in order for the Church to be more than a political party or a social club. But they haven't gone away, have they?Mr Grumpyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05317128956060393033noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31069882.post-79317049611211836722012-08-21T14:06:07.027+01:002012-08-21T14:06:07.027+01:00What price Original Sin?What price Original Sin? Frederick Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06106669441369527118noreply@blogger.com