tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post1791716371232095915..comments2024-02-26T19:22:15.069-06:00Comments on Lex Christianorum: By Nature Equal: How Are Men Created Equal? Kant Can't But Cant About Natural LawAndrew M. Greenwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-49705686059659536442010-05-27T10:27:32.069-05:002010-05-27T10:27:32.069-05:00I think there is more than a bit of Americanism in...I think there is more than a bit of Americanism in Coons and Brennan. But I think they are also infected by the epistemological turn of Descartes and the intellectal Copernican revolution initiated by of Kant. They also seem particularly resentful towards traditional Thomistic teaching. <br /><br />On Americanism, see Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae, by Pope Leo XIII.Andrew M. Greenwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17242573723573203387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585732092994259978.post-76784306640640729962010-05-26T17:45:11.154-05:002010-05-26T17:45:11.154-05:00I think I have hit on the problem of Coons and Bre...I think I have hit on the problem of Coons and Brennan. They are Americans; thorough Americans and steeped in America and its culture. They do not have a Old World viewpoint which I think it is necessary for any good orthodox Catholic to have. <br /><br />They are Americans. They have drunk from the Well of Americanism. They are imbued with Americanism and so their thesis of their book is based on Americanism. <br /><br />Even though I was born and raised in America, After the Marine Corps, I lived by myself for three and half years in Europe, not in the tourist sections but in the black labor market, working on farms, in the countryside. This changed my outlook. What nailed it further and gave me an intellectual base was reading Eric von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's book <i>Liberty or Equality</i> and that topped off my living experience by giving me an "European feel". I am very much now an Old Order.<br /><br />The problem with Catholics in America is that now they are divorced from the Old World and have adopted hook, line and sinker, the New World Order. <br /><br />If the Faith is Europe, and Europe is the Faith, Catholicism can NOT be separated from Europe, its culture, traditions, history or climate. Catholicism can not exist outside European climate. Catholicism is tied to the Old World, to the Old Order. <br /><br />These two profs and their thinking are affected by American culture which is Masonic which is a parallel to Marxism. All Catholics must have training in the Old World and a love and a loyalty and a connection to the Old World, to Old Fashioned Europe. This is their mistake, they have not been inculturated into the Old Order. And they need to be.WLindsayWheelernoreply@blogger.com