Per the conversions to Catholicism as a sociological issue:
At what point do low-brow "trust the experts" 20th Century culture-Evangelicals become a legitimate stumbling block deserving church discipline? We're more than happy to say that people who aggressively police their fellow Christians around left-wing issues deserve censure, but we're hesitant to apply this principle the other way. Evangelical leaders who insist that belief in libertarian free markets, undue deference to the secular university, late 20th Century American-style political institutions, and the Supreme Court jurisprudence of Rehnquist and Scalia are co-equal to the Gospel (or effectively in the Gospel) are no different than Russell Moore, in a different direction, and actively suppress any attempt by young Evangelical intellectuals to grow our tradition in new directions.
Frankly, I'm all for saying that "God is against tariffs" or "The VRA Section 2 is a Gospel issue" are opinions that should lead to a referral to your pastor and congregation discipline for being a stumbling block and a quarreler.
Divine inspiration of secular American political institutions, including the Declaration, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil Rights Act, etc. is a well-established principle of the Mormon faith, and tons of Evangelicals parrot this not knowing its origin. Joel Berry, off the top of my head, is pretty egregious about this.
I would point you to the comments section at American Reformer, but they closed them for this very reason. Too many dim-witted conservatives who think God himself wrote policy for the Reagan administration.
Burge's data on divorce are rather sobering. They make the Brad Wilcox types who keep claiming that things aren't so bad with marriage sound rather like the shopkeeper in Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit.
Well then we have another link to boomers and silents being alone as the age out of existence. Based on the divorce article, they did it to themselves and outside of the ss that is forcibly taken from paychecks and employers, we owe them nothing. Divorce is suppose to be a last resort of a lifetime contract that has been reduced to nothing. They, predominantly women, deserve what they get for abandoning and getting bored of their marriage life.
There's definitely been an increase in divorces due to late middle aged women feeling bored and unfulfilled. However the three A's (Abuse, Adultery and Addiction) are still very prevalent as reasons people call it quits.
Uh huh, 70-80% divorce rate including these idiotic gray divorces aren't really from the three a's. Thinking your life begins at 65 is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard and watching these idiots flail around in loneliness and poverty is their own fault for destroying their assets. If only i could stop my ss that is taken from me and my family to feed these morons who destroyed their own families and equity.
Re: Uh huh, 70-80% divorce rate including these idiotic gray divorces aren't really from the three a's.
And your source for those numbers are? I'm not sure there is any objective set of stats for something like that (people can tell pollsters anything the want on stuff of that sort). All I know is most divorces I've known of in my adult life do seem to be due to those factors-- though, yes, I've known a couple "I'm just bored" type divorces too. (When I was growing up it was still common for working class young people to marry soon after high school, often by just going before a civil magistrate. Without exception every such marriage of that sort I knew of in the late 70s and 80s ended in divorce after a couple years when the partners realized they had made a big mistake.)
Re: If only i could stop my ss that is taken from me and my family to feed these morons who destroyed their own families and equity.
What are you talking about? Your eventual Social Security benefits (that's what you mean by "ss"?) are not made one penny less by anything anyone else is doing. Moreover since marriage is mainly a middle class thing these days, so too is divorce-- those people generally have jobs/careers that allow them to support their lives with no public assistance. I don't know anyone who ended up on "welfare" as the result of a divorce-- and no., I do not hang out in upper income circles.
Careers mean nothing. Divorced people sucking the young dry by their inflated house prices and ss and refusing to get out of the way have ruined society and will continue to ruin society for the next 15 years.
What do you mean by "refuse to get out of the way"? Are you advocating that old people should kill themselves? Mandatory euthanasia? At what age should the "Logan's Run Solution" kick in?
My paycheck is less and the money for my family is less because ss is taken from me and given to the old. The supreme court has already said the damn thing is a tax and when it's gone, it's gone see flemming v nestor. The fact that is goes to the old divorcee to feed their selfish horrible lifestyle is insulting to myself and my families future. Anybody who divorces for boredom or happiness is an amoral horrible person. The grays who do it and get ss from the young are even worse.
News flash: Social Security benefits are EARNED. They are not welfare of any kind.
Dude, be glad you live in this world and not one that was or would be much worse. Bitterness like yours curdles the soul and it does not become a Christian (if you claim to be one, which you may not). Things could vastly worse than anything you are dealing with. And "vastly" as in the difference between a candle and a thermonuclear fireball.
Enjoyed the Gen Z piece, which I somehow missed although I have a WSJ subscription. I think both the trad life piece and this one are united by being a revolt against disorder - after all, most social change brought to us by progressive politics brings heightened disorder with it. Mass illegal immigration, multiculturalism, lax policing/law enforcement directly produce disorder, and stuff like transgenderism literally is a disorder.
Re: most social change brought to us by progressive politics brings heightened disorder with it.
Change of any sort tends to upset settled apple carts. It isn't just progressive change that does that. Consider the roiling of our economy due to the ever-changing tariffs.
Every day I commute all the way across Plano on surface arterials. The *constant* slalom through street construction crews is exhausting, the practice is to shut down one lane at a time. We gripe about the Plano "Department of Digging Holes."
But then I drive through Dallas and endure the bone-jarring effects of street repairs that never get done. Can't say its improvement.
Per the conversions to Catholicism as a sociological issue:
At what point do low-brow "trust the experts" 20th Century culture-Evangelicals become a legitimate stumbling block deserving church discipline? We're more than happy to say that people who aggressively police their fellow Christians around left-wing issues deserve censure, but we're hesitant to apply this principle the other way. Evangelical leaders who insist that belief in libertarian free markets, undue deference to the secular university, late 20th Century American-style political institutions, and the Supreme Court jurisprudence of Rehnquist and Scalia are co-equal to the Gospel (or effectively in the Gospel) are no different than Russell Moore, in a different direction, and actively suppress any attempt by young Evangelical intellectuals to grow our tradition in new directions.
Frankly, I'm all for saying that "God is against tariffs" or "The VRA Section 2 is a Gospel issue" are opinions that should lead to a referral to your pastor and congregation discipline for being a stumbling block and a quarreler.
I agree completely. Both sides actually sacralized Americanism, just different elements of it.
Is anyone actually saying anything of the sort?
Divine inspiration of secular American political institutions, including the Declaration, Constitution, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil Rights Act, etc. is a well-established principle of the Mormon faith, and tons of Evangelicals parrot this not knowing its origin. Joel Berry, off the top of my head, is pretty egregious about this.
I would point you to the comments section at American Reformer, but they closed them for this very reason. Too many dim-witted conservatives who think God himself wrote policy for the Reagan administration.
Burge's data on divorce are rather sobering. They make the Brad Wilcox types who keep claiming that things aren't so bad with marriage sound rather like the shopkeeper in Monty Python's Dead Parrot skit.
Well then we have another link to boomers and silents being alone as the age out of existence. Based on the divorce article, they did it to themselves and outside of the ss that is forcibly taken from paychecks and employers, we owe them nothing. Divorce is suppose to be a last resort of a lifetime contract that has been reduced to nothing. They, predominantly women, deserve what they get for abandoning and getting bored of their marriage life.
There's definitely been an increase in divorces due to late middle aged women feeling bored and unfulfilled. However the three A's (Abuse, Adultery and Addiction) are still very prevalent as reasons people call it quits.
Uh huh, 70-80% divorce rate including these idiotic gray divorces aren't really from the three a's. Thinking your life begins at 65 is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard and watching these idiots flail around in loneliness and poverty is their own fault for destroying their assets. If only i could stop my ss that is taken from me and my family to feed these morons who destroyed their own families and equity.
Re: Uh huh, 70-80% divorce rate including these idiotic gray divorces aren't really from the three a's.
And your source for those numbers are? I'm not sure there is any objective set of stats for something like that (people can tell pollsters anything the want on stuff of that sort). All I know is most divorces I've known of in my adult life do seem to be due to those factors-- though, yes, I've known a couple "I'm just bored" type divorces too. (When I was growing up it was still common for working class young people to marry soon after high school, often by just going before a civil magistrate. Without exception every such marriage of that sort I knew of in the late 70s and 80s ended in divorce after a couple years when the partners realized they had made a big mistake.)
Re: If only i could stop my ss that is taken from me and my family to feed these morons who destroyed their own families and equity.
What are you talking about? Your eventual Social Security benefits (that's what you mean by "ss"?) are not made one penny less by anything anyone else is doing. Moreover since marriage is mainly a middle class thing these days, so too is divorce-- those people generally have jobs/careers that allow them to support their lives with no public assistance. I don't know anyone who ended up on "welfare" as the result of a divorce-- and no., I do not hang out in upper income circles.
Careers mean nothing. Divorced people sucking the young dry by their inflated house prices and ss and refusing to get out of the way have ruined society and will continue to ruin society for the next 15 years.
What do you mean by "refuse to get out of the way"? Are you advocating that old people should kill themselves? Mandatory euthanasia? At what age should the "Logan's Run Solution" kick in?
My paycheck is less and the money for my family is less because ss is taken from me and given to the old. The supreme court has already said the damn thing is a tax and when it's gone, it's gone see flemming v nestor. The fact that is goes to the old divorcee to feed their selfish horrible lifestyle is insulting to myself and my families future. Anybody who divorces for boredom or happiness is an amoral horrible person. The grays who do it and get ss from the young are even worse.
News flash: Social Security benefits are EARNED. They are not welfare of any kind.
Dude, be glad you live in this world and not one that was or would be much worse. Bitterness like yours curdles the soul and it does not become a Christian (if you claim to be one, which you may not). Things could vastly worse than anything you are dealing with. And "vastly" as in the difference between a candle and a thermonuclear fireball.
Enjoyed the Gen Z piece, which I somehow missed although I have a WSJ subscription. I think both the trad life piece and this one are united by being a revolt against disorder - after all, most social change brought to us by progressive politics brings heightened disorder with it. Mass illegal immigration, multiculturalism, lax policing/law enforcement directly produce disorder, and stuff like transgenderism literally is a disorder.
Re: most social change brought to us by progressive politics brings heightened disorder with it.
Change of any sort tends to upset settled apple carts. It isn't just progressive change that does that. Consider the roiling of our economy due to the ever-changing tariffs.
That's true, but progressives tend to seek change for the sake of change and damn the consequences.
As a resident of the North Dallas suburbs, I can't think of anywhere nearby to send you that would impress you from an urbanist perspective.
Don't worry. I will find things of interest - even just driving down suburban arterials.
Every day I commute all the way across Plano on surface arterials. The *constant* slalom through street construction crews is exhausting, the practice is to shut down one lane at a time. We gripe about the Plano "Department of Digging Holes."
But then I drive through Dallas and endure the bone-jarring effects of street repairs that never get done. Can't say its improvement.
I enjoyed your observations of our metroplex.