Comments for Universalism, True and False at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 10 out of 10 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Wed, 22 May 2013 13:26:01 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9507 This question of universals brings up something that's been bothering me since I read St Augustine's analysis of Cicero's views on whether God has foreknowledge. The problem with foreknowledge in Cicero's view was that if God has foreknowledge it is the same as saying that everything is foreordained, and therefore men cannot be held accountable for their actions. Sin then becomes God's responsibility, not ours. Augustine couldn't accept that because it would invalidate the entire Christian enterprise, and even worse that God was responsible for evil as well as good. Since God could only be good, this was impossible. But that raises another problem: if God is bound to be Good, then it would have to mean that even God was restricted in his actions and that furthermore Good and Evil preceded God. The idea of Natural Law has a similar problem. Is God bound by a universal law as much as we? - Barry from Victoria Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:46:48 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9066 Great story... MMA great from Russia Fedor Emelianenko fought American Jeff Monson in Moscow a few weeks back and Monson broke his leg. Monson, an anarchist with tatoos all over his body about Socialism in Russian language, decided to go to the hospital. Basically a hard-core "Occupy" type of guy. He writes on his blog that it felt like being in a Civil-war era hospital. So much for universalism and its idealism - Stanley Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:05:58 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9048 Most welcome, Father Schall. When Western Civilization abandoned Scholastic Philosophy based on St. Thomas and Aristotle it was the beginning of the long slide into this mess we face today. - benedict1 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:51:02 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9043 I always thought the best argument against universalism is what happens when the universal government becomes corrupt? Where can you seek refuge then? - Stanley Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:55 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9040 And those who deny God in the name of material progress and so-called tolerance become intolerant of any religion that teaches that objective standards of right and wrong, and morality and immorality exist; and that humans ignore that at their peril. TeaPot562 - TeaPot562 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:25:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9039 An excellent analysis. Pope Benedict XVI has a similar take on the notion of "regnocentrism" in Book 1 of "Jesus of Nazareth." - HV Observer Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:33:27 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9038 Thnaks you, Fr. Schall for this wonderful, penetrating tour of the last several centuries's foolishness and what it has led up to. I have never seena a more succint recounting the nature and consequences of mankind's arrogacne and erros. Shortly there will be no freedom, for the vacuum left by the rejction of the gift of Faith must surely suck in ideologies foremd from our lowest, most vile inclination, beginning with the desire to play at being gods. Those "freethinkers" who think it can't happen hear and are annoyed by relgious expreesion will find that prayers, hymns, and even incense are easiser to abide that the evils that men cook up when the make gods of themsleves. - Thomas C. Coleman, Jr. Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:13:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9036 What is so maddening about the post-Enlightenment project is that no one seems to take the measure of its failure. With each new progressive victory indices of social wellbeing trend ever downward. Soon they will just have to legislate happiness. Those who break the law will be punished. "I'll give you something to cry about..." - Other Joe Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:27:38 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9035 Thank you Father for a sedulous and thought provoking essay. "Blessed are the eyes that see what you see". I pray they are many. - Ray Hunkins Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:23:18 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2011/universalism-true-and-false.html#comment-9034 And yet dear Father, ironically, diversity is one of the rallying cries. This is an excellent, stinging but necessary commentary on the modern mind. I can feel the clenched fists of the modern citizen of the world barking “ 'peace peace' when there is no peace.” - Achilles Tue, 29 Nov 2011 03:58:30 +0100