
I Do Not Have a Right to My Own Opinion, and Neither Do You
The act of choosing a viewpoint based simply on preference is a contradiction of our duty to pursue the truth.
The act of choosing a viewpoint based simply on preference is a contradiction of our duty to pursue the truth.
‘A beautiful idea,’ said Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose, ‘has a much greater chance of being a correct idea than an ugly one.’
It is supremely closed-minded to throw away Homer and Mozart and Augustine.
The reason of the heart is instinctive recognition of truth, goodness and beauty.
Judging from the hysteria following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, great numbers of people are now furiously burying their heads in sand so deep it may not be possible, short of divine intervention, to dig them out.
“We want to follow in St. Paul’s footsteps when he invites us to ‘test everything and retain what is good.'”
Are we afraid of alienating people so much that we won’t stick up for what’s right and help set people free?
The fact-versus-opinion dichotomy is one of the most detrimental ideas and habits of thought to the human mind.
No historian should be taken seriously unless he is also a theologian and philosopher.
“There can be no rule of law … unless citizens and especially leaders are convinced that there is no freedom without truth.” —Pope St. John Paul II
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