Ron Paul on Values (great article on Ron winning the Values Voter Straw Poll)

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http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/10/13/ron-paul-on-values/

[Bruno]

That, is what I call a GREAT article!

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Bump for exposure to the good points made in this article:


This is the idea that the realms of politics and religion—“Caesar” and God, “the City of Man” and “the City of God,” as Augustine put it—though they may and often do overlap, are nevertheless mutually distinct. Those who would conflate the two aren’t just fools; they are blasphemers. With those few simple words—“Give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God”—Jesus opened an unbridgeable chasm between Christianity, on the one hand, and utopian politics, on the other. Indeed, from the apostle Paul to Augustine and throughout even the medieval period, for the duration of their pre-modern history, Christians knew this well. However, the emergence of centralized governments and the unprecedented power over which they acquired a monopoly forced this old Christian concept to the periphery.

[freejack]

I love it when Leonardo DiCaprio writes about Ron.