Thomas Fleming's book, The Morality of Everyday Life, claims that the theory of rights is a superstition. Fleming says, "Ask where rights come from, they will either refer to a mystical story such as the wondrous tale of the social contract, or following Calvin, they will dismiss all criticism by saying that everybody knows what rights are." He says that if there is a convincing proof of the existence origin of rights that he had never heard of it, that rights one must conclude are to be taken on faith, and only by those who profess to have no religion. The book says that there are two American spokesmen for rights: Thomas Paine versus Thomas Jefferson. The educated Jefferson traced the theory of natural rights through the struggle between a king and a parliament, and to the Magna Carta, and ultimately to the Anglo-Saxons who lived in freedom before the Norman Conquest. Whereas with the uneducated Thomas Paine, thought that we were free and invented imaginary societies a...
Pope Leo’s war on the Latin Mass exposes his true agenda Pray an Our Father now for reparation for the sins committed because of Francis’s Amoris Laetitia and for the restoration of the Church. Stop for a moment of silence, ask Jesus Christ what He wants you to do now and next. In this silence remember God, Father, Son and Holy Ghost – Three Divine Persons yet One God, has an ordered universe where you can know truth and falsehood as well as never forget that He wants you to have eternal happiness with Him as his son or daughter by grace. Make this a practice. By doing this you are doing more good than reading anything here or anywhere else on the Internet. The Catholic Monitor The Catholic Monitor https://www.thecatholicmonitor.com I ask all The Catholic Monitor readers to also pray for the end of this war . Watch " Trump Calls Putin To Get Iran War Offramp! w/ Scott Ritter " on YouTube : ... Read more Please Pra...