Geee Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 American Conservative Last week, US Attorney General William Barr gave an extraordinary speech about religious liberty at Notre Dame Law School. I have not been able to locate a transcript, and only found time to watch it this morning. Here’s a video of the entire thing. The speech itself begins at about the four-minute mark. The AG begins by talking about the capacity for self-government, meaning not the form of administration of a liberal democracy, but the ability of individuals to master their own passions, and subject them to reason. Can we handle freedom? That, says Barr, is a question that preoccupied the Founders. No society can exist without the capacity to restrain vice, he goes on to say. If you depend only on the government to do this, you get tyranny. (This, by the way, is what’s happening in China; many Chinese actually support the tyrannical Social Credit System, because communism destroyed civil society and social trust.) But, says Barr, licentiousness is another form of tyranny. People enslaved by their own appetites make community life impossible. (This, I would say, is what we are more endangered by in America today … and it will ultimately call forth tyranny, Chinese-style.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Valin Posted October 18, 2019 Share Posted October 18, 2019 Related..................... _________________________________________________________ To Our Friends On The Left..... 1. What Do You Want? 2. How Do You Get It? 3. Then What Happens? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geee Posted October 18, 2019 Author Share Posted October 18, 2019 RELIGION What Barr Got Right — and What He Might Add He singled out for criticism those who believe that, in effect, government social programs could replace the virtues instilled by religion. Attorney General William Barr finds himself the target of criticism for remarks he made at the University of Notre Dame in which he made the case that a decline in religiosity — and, indeed, attacks on the beliefs of the religious — might have something to do with personal and social dysfunction in the United States. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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