Is Western civilization unique? What are the worldview implications either way?


RS-19 What makes history happen? What made the West different? Reason

RS-20 What made reason important? The Creator God Concept

OG-9 The Source of the Western Sense of Freedom

OG-10 The Golden Triangle: Virtue, Faith, and Freedom

OG-11 Soul Liberty

OG-12 Three Public Squares: Sacred, Naked, and Civil

OG-13 The Relationship of Liberty and Equality

OG-14 The Paradox of Freedom and The Types of Freedom: Negative and Positive

JW-10 How many ethics are there? Wight's 3-D Model

OG-15 The Relationship between Freedom and Democracy

OG-5 First Amendment and Freedom of Religion: The Williamsburg Charter and The Global Charter

OG-6 The Big Question - Freedom of Conscience or Culture Warring

OG-7 Christian Consensus v. Freedom of Conscience

OG-8 Os’ Three Books on Freedom and The Public Square

RS-22 What about the Church in America's public square?



MN-30 In The Founders’ Opinions: How good is man? Our saving Grace!

OG-9 The Source of the Western Sense of Freedom

JH-34 Summary of Western religion? Ethical Monotheism

JH-35 What about evil?

JH-36 Human evil?

JH-31 Is there morality, virtue, or religion without freedom?



MN-25 The Founder’s Creator God and Free Will

MN-26 The Creator God and Free Will: The Virginia Declaration of Rights

MN-27 Human Rights Rooted in Duty to Creator

JH-25 Are the major religions after the same thing? Or are there fundamental clashes between them?

JH-26 What is your personal point of view here?

MN-32 Is human nature good enough for democracy?

JH-22 How does free will relate to causation? Many Causes

JH-23 Can human secularism or atheism support morality over the long haul?

JH-24 How do we know something is possible? Are all supernaturalists and naturalists alike?

JH-29 Do you see room for freedom and democracy in Islamic culture? Core Social Principles

JW-11 What is a moral good?

JW-10 How many ethics are there? Wight's 3-D Model

JW-9 Can money, mathematics, efficiency, or science give us the answers?

JW-27 Does "I ought to do" something imply it's possible to accomplish that goal?

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WW-30 Where does your morality or worldview begin?

WW-32 Do people have a right to equality?

OG-13 The Relationship of Liberty and Equality

ME-17 The Church Supporting Individuals through Marriage

ME-18 Christianity, Marriage, Consent, and Equality

ME-19 Equality between Men and Women

ME-11 Class and Religion

ME-12 Fallout in the Mainline Churches

ME-13 The Feminist Critique and the Judeo-Christian Moral Code

JH-44 Social Justice, Change, and Tradition

JW-43 Institutionally imposed "social justice" v individually based social justice?

JW-44 So which of the two models of social justice do you favor?

JW-45 Any comments on Thomas Piketty's book on capital and inequality?

AC-34 What do you think about social justice?

AC-35 Should government provide a safety net for the disadvantaged?
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MN-29 Liberty: A Human Only Riddle

MN-28 Conscience

MN-30 In The Founders’ Opinions: How good is man? Our saving Grace!

MN-31 “Human Capital” and the Liberty to be a Creator

MN-32 Is human nature good enough for democracy?

OG-5 First Amendment and Freedom of Religion: The Williamsburg Charter and The Global Charter

OG-6 The Big Question - Freedom of Conscience or Culture Warring

OG-7 Christian Consensus v. Freedom of Conscience

OG-8 Os’ Three Books on Freedom and The Public Square

OG-14 The Paradox of Freedom and The Types of Freedom: Negative and Positive

MN-33 Family: The Foundation of Human Society

WW-15 How important is the family?

ME-7 Family and Religion

ME-6 HTWRLG’s The Double Helix: Family and Church

MN-18 Holy Human Capital!

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JW-22 Is human nature the same everywhere? How do we develop worldview?

MN-29 Liberty: A Human Only Riddle

JH-9 What are mind and reason?

JH-10 Will computers one day have human consciousness?

MN-28 Conscience

JH-23 Can human secularism or atheism support morality over the long haul?

JW-7 What is "right and wrong"?

WW-10 Is man’s nature inherently good or bad?

WW-11 Why do humans have trouble accepting the truth?

WW-31 Do Americans value personal responsibility today?

MN-30 In The Founders’ Opinions: How good is man? Our saving Grace!

JW-32 How did Adam Smith and the American founders view "selfishness"?

MN-32 Is human nature good enough for democracy?

WW-23 The Inherent Evil of Government

MN-18 Holy Human Capital!
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OG-15 The Relationship between Freedom and Democracy

MN-21 Taxation and Capital

WW-17 Should the federal government have intervened in 2008-9?

WW-21 Does government create jobs?

WW-22 Can government protect jobs?

WW-23 The Inherent Evil of Government

WW24R Is It OK to Agree to Theft? What is Theft?

JW-39 What is taxation? The Price Paid for Civilization

WW-25 A Potential Moral Issue with The Welfare State: Taxation as Legalized Theft

JW-34 What would Adam Smith say today about human progress since 1776? The drivers?

JW-35 Would he be astounded, or would he say, "I told you so"?

JW-16 What is the difference between a need and a want?

JW-17 How might the state address needs versus wants? The Negative Income Tax

JW-15 Does the notion of progress assume a moral framework?

WW-31 Do Americans value personal responsibility today?
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OG-10 The Golden Triangle: Virtue, Faith, and Freedom

OG-11 Soul Liberty

OG-12 Three Public Squares: Sacred, Naked, and Civil

WW-30 Where does your morality or worldview begin?

WW-16 What undergirds American freedom at its heart? The Limited Role of Government

WW-23a Legal theft, morality, and religion or Christianity?

MN-3 Capitalism: Political Order & Limited Government are Essential

MN-2 The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism - Defining Capitalism

OG-14 The Paradox of Freedom and The Types of Freedom: Negative and Positive



ME-14 Knocking Down the Nuclear Family

ME-15 Fallout Since the 1960’s

ME-16 Helicopter Parents

JW-34 What would Adam Smith say today about human progress since 1776? The drivers?

JW-35 Would he be astounded, or would he say, "I told you so"?

JW-13 Another definition of worldview. Does worldview determine the approach used?

JW-14 Can government address market failures without a moral framework?

JW-15 Does the notion of progress assume a moral framework?

JH-47 Social Justice: Law, Habituation, Education, and Discrimination

JH-48 Social Justice: America with a Long Way to Go

JH-49 Are you optimistic or pessimistic about the future? Due Diligence Needed
