Sister Johnson has a beef. She was not asked to explain her book. She’s saying it was not written clearly? Bishops are a dim lot? Hmmm. She could write another one to explain this one. Call it How the Bishops Got My Book Wrong.
It’s time for free-marketers to hijack social justice, currently occupied as inevitable high ground for libs or progressives or whatever they are calling themselves lately.
That’s an interview with the founder-proprietor of — just what I was looking for — the “Bleeding Heart Libertarians” blog. He’s Matt Zwolinski, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego.
More later, I hope, about this site, to which Google sent me, let’s face it, by way of a public-radio station!
[The bishops’] statement faults [Sister Elizabeth] Johnson for treating language about God in the Bible and in church tradition as largely metaphorical, implying that truth about God is essentially unknowable.
Sister Johnson
Even if mysteries such as the Trinity and the Incarnation can never be fully grasped, the statement says, they can nevertheless be known.
While Johnson bases part of her argument on early church fathers, according to the statement, her position actually has more in common with Immanuel Kant and Enlightenment skepticism.
It’s called ecclesiastical pushing the envelope. Keeps us on our toes.
President Barack Obama’s FY 2012 budget proposal would harm charitable organizations by raising the tax rate on upper-income individuals and families and reducing their income tax deduction for charitable donations.
These two changes in the tax code would discourage charitable donations and leave the most generous donors with less money to donate.
Predictably, they would shift resources from private nonprofit charitable organizations to the federal government, which is consistently less effective and efficient in caring for the needy.
Do you care about poor people or don’t you? That is the question.
OR: Do you love gummint more? (And while you’re at it, love penalizing wealth?)
