We need more of it. The whole Caesar/God division – we need to apply that more broadly.
It’s not difficult. We already know the basic principle – we won’t come into your churches and mosques and tell you how to do the god thing, and you won’t take over hospitals and government and engineering. Ok?
Here’s why. The god thing isn’t relevant to anything except itself. It’s often harmful to things that aren’t itself. Bridges aren’t designed according to faith. Bridges have to be designed according to this world properties of steel and concrete, not according to other world notions of miracles and faith. There has to be a strict division between the two. Otherwise you get a mess.
Geology, that’s another one. Land management. Resource management. Drainage. Soil types. Slopes. Historical patterns. All this world items. It’s no good looking at the hill and thinking “God will make sure the hill doesn’t fall on the town even if we cut down all the trees.” That’s no good at all.
It’s the same with pharmacies, and clinics, and hospitals. Medicine is science-based, knowledge-based; it’s secular. Ideas about gods and their wishes just get in the way.
sez the OP: “We already know the basic principle – we won’t come into your churches and mosques and tell you how to do the god thing, and you won’t take over hospitals and government and engineering. Ok?”
Not OK. Clearly. Just ask any of the bishops who are currently running hospitals, or implementing plans to assimilate secular hospitals, or…
It was that rhetorical kind of “ok?”. Or maybe the menacing kind. :/
The bishops care not a whit for the people involved in the hospitals. They’re there to claim the souls.
The bodies are a pretty severe impediment to that goal, as it turns out.
A bit off topic (I apologize), but thanks for the inspiration for this one – http://pictoraltheology.blogspot.com/2014/04/im-guessing-goose-wont-be-amused.html
I’m a bit reluctant to leave links, but you might appreciate this set of panels.
I wonder what Scalia’s take on that would be?
Heh! That’s great.
Scalia would tell them the devil is real.
Amen Ophelia.