Thursday, March 27, 2008
MORE FREEDOM SOLVES THE JEREMIAH WRIGHT PROBLEM
Fr. Robert Sirico, President of the Acton Institute, has offered his interpretation of the O'Bama/Jeremiah Wright debacle. He believes that our problem is too much government intervention:
When the state is involved in our lives in doing more than merely enforcing minimal rules, it creates division.
The path to the social peace we all favor, then, is not through further politicization but through liberalization of social and economic life. We need to be free to cooperate.
The freedom to cooperate is also the freedom to disagree. There was less government intervention during the Civil War. That's a good example of life when we are "free to cooperate." It's called slavery. We have a modern-day example of the result of the "liberalization of our economic life". It's called the mortgage meltdown.
What is needed is what a previous generation took for granted: a shared moral consensus to evaluate our current dilemmas and a common grammar for debate. Only when we have begun with a unified foundation can we reach mutual understanding on what constitutes fairness and justice in our civil and economic relations.
A "shared moral consensus" is a shared religion. Which one? And what would he propose to do about those who embraced a different faith?
I believe he is right about the need for a common moral system of belief. Pluralism...Globalism...they don't work. But pluralism and globalism are what we've got. And government offers the only solution to the problems having them has generated.
Even more amazing is that The Detroit News has posted Sirico's opinion on their website, proving that you don't need brains to get your name in print. All you need is the politically correct foundation.
As Rabbi Marvin S. Antelman has demonstrated.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
