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Should Everything Be Political? by David Warren – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Should Everything Be Political? by David Warren

Witchcraft in the Church and Voting for the Democratic Agenda, by Wanda Alger

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Saint of the Day for October 18: St. Luke

October 18, 2024

The Liars Bench photo by Frank M. Hohenberger, 1923 [Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indianapolis, IN]

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, October 18, 2024

David Warren is a former editor of the Idler magazine and columnist in Canadian newspapers. He has extensive experience in the Near and Far East. His blog, Essays in Idleness, is now to be found at: davidwarrenonline.com.

Should everything be political?

My own view is that nothing should be, or as little as possible, given our fallen human nature. And there should be laws against political schemes, as we have long had laws against theft, murder, and the other divine Commandments.

But this is merely my opinion, which, of course, counts for nothing in a democratic system, where even right and wrong are subject to impulsive voting.

The fact that I am a Catholic Christian does not come into this, let alone the much larger fact that there is Jesus Christ.

Indeed, just mentioning these facts in the neighborhood of democratic activists – some of whom concede that I have “free speech” – is pointless. For a majority may suddenly vote that I do not. …

Should Everything Be Political? by David Warren

Witchcraft in the Church and Voting for the Democratic Agenda, by Wanda Alger

Saint of the Day for October 18: St. Luke

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing, October 18, 2024

Should everything be political?

My own view is that nothing should be, or as little as possible, given our fallen human nature. And there should be laws against political schemes, as we have long had laws against theft, murder, and the other divine Commandments.

But this is merely my opinion, which, of course, counts for nothing in a democratic system, where even right and wrong are subject to impulsive voting.

The fact that I am a Catholic Christian does not come into this, let alone the much larger fact that there is Jesus Christ.

Indeed, just mentioning these facts in the neighborhood of democratic activists – some of whom concede that I have “free speech” – is pointless. For a majority may suddenly vote that I do not. …

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