Limited Government, by Doug Wilson
As C.S. Lewis points out, there are two ways to be supportive of democracy. One is because you have faith in Mankind, and you think that everybody’s opinion is so valuable that you don’t want to take any course of action without consulting everybody first. That is the humanist approach. The Christian approach argues that man is so far corrupted that we cannot entrust too much power to any human entity or person, which means that we have to spread the political power as thinly as possible. That is the Christian view, and it rests on our doctrine of sin. The other is the Pelagian view, whether it is the tabula rasa of Locke, or the lust-governed view of de Sade. Right wing Enlightenment thinking can keep it together for a bit before collapsing, and left wing Enlightenment thinking has kind of turned into an orgy. But our response needs to be Christian all the way through.
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Poems
Posting and analysing some important poems.
Rudyard Kipling
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The Benefactors
The Female of the Species
The Benefactors
The Glory of the Garden // Podcast Version
Edgar Guest
Keep Going
One More Turn // Podcast Version
The Glory of the Garden
It Takes a Heap O’Livin // Podcast Version
Sue’s Got a Baby
Only a Dad
Is Anybody Happier?
Can’t
On Quitting
Hard Luck
Thomas J. Williams
Once to Every Man or Nation
JRR Tolkien
I Sit Beside the Fire and Think
Quotes
A bunch of fun and significant quotes: