Comments for The Power of the Third Commandment at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 17:58:27 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-power-of-the-third-commandment.html#comment-4485 Dear Mr. Fagan, Please cite studies! While I believe your premise that people who lead actively religious lives are better off, you fail to cite any studies that support this notion. - MyDogOreo Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:48:13 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2010/the-power-of-the-third-commandment.html#comment-4435 But Dr. Fagan, don't you realize that this is all terribly wrong? People shouldn't be doing the right things or avoiding bad things out of fear of eternal damnation. They all have the wrong motivation, and even then many commit what the superstitous call sin becuase they have too much freedom. But Comrade Lenin assures us that once people have been forced to be good long enough they will automatically act for the good of the community and that the apparatus of coercion--the state--will wither a away like a vesitgal organ. OK, seriously. Great article, Sir. Ought to be given to all college freshmen and their parents. Clearly, if the Commandments didn't exist (an impossibility, of course) we'd have to invent them. Thanks, again. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:57:10 +0100