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Yep. Key plot point in the story.

Yes?

The idea of meditating on it comes to mind. We are presented with options, and if we choose to meditate on a wrong option, then that's the sin of lust and envy. The temptation is not sin, but it is endemic to our human existence, even Adam and Eve and Our Lord were tempted.

There's a reason particular options are presented to each of us. I don't think being tempted because of our concupiscence is of a different scale, it's of the same quality as being presented tempting options, but it's like we're on fire for tempting options, always wanting to hear them. "I...

OK, good question. "In essentials, unity." What can we unite around? Maybe my children won't be Catholics. Maybe they won't take my correction. What do I do. Seems at this point familial relations have to regress backward to sanitary and sterile politics. Human rights. I have a right to...

Granted. The progression was from sin making you stupid (the original idea), to demons making you stupid, to listening to demons making you stupid, to obeying demons making you stupid. Granted. And therefore also agreed. My point, and I think it's exemplified in Our Lord's temptation by the...

But which comes first, the chicken (being stupid) or the eggs (consuming stupidity)? I read CNN because it's free (cf. N.Y. Times and W.S.J. and Financial Times and The Economist which are all paywalls) and I already know that any journalistic slant is a Democratic party slant. CNN is a known...

"The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of World that it leaves to its children," Bonhoeffer once said. That's why I know the American framers are the real Greatest Generation in American history, no disrespect to the WWII Greatest Generation intended, but this is like Tom Brady...

I hope you recover soon and well. Well is better than soon though for a young man. So I hope you recover well first, soon only if well is established. That's the most important part for a young man. Whether I lift weights or not, I get injured, so I figure I might as well get injured lifting...

OK but how is it said of Christ that He was "tempted in every way, just as we are"? The only example explicit in the Scripture of Him being tempted is when the Devil was literally tempting Him. Or are you suggesting Our Lord was "drawn away of his own lust?" As if that's possible? What are...

We believe that God is love, right? And we believe this parable is about the kingdom of Heaven, right? So I'm thinking that the master in the parable represents God, and if God is love, then love must be in the parable somewhere, coming from the master, the master must be loving in some way...

Admiral Rickover interviewed sailors to work on his nuclear submarine project. One of the candidates was intelligent and well-credentialed but Rickover couldn't get a good enough read on him through the interview and frustrated, gave him a weird challenge instead, "You have 10 seconds to make...

This is true but not without qualification. The Septuagint translation was literally quoted in the New Testament here and there, so at least those passages actually are authoritative translations from Hebrew to ancient Greek. If you disagree with that, then let's have it. The Septuagint was...

This's from Greek philosophers. They're the ones who first taught that God and the Good are the same being or entity, that Goodness isn't just an attribute of God but that God is Goodness itself (whatever that means). It's an idea derived from, conjectured, deduced from just reason. The...

If the chamber was pressurized instead of evacuated, would the scale have said the object is now lighter? What does the scale do if there's nothing on it to weigh (empty and zeroed) would it go negative?

God seems to pull things toward mass, the mathematical model of what God's doing we call gravity, a "force." But God's actually the force.

We agree that this is supposed to be a picture of the kingdom of Heaven, right? This is a parable about the kingdom?

Do you think He told them that because it was arbitrary, or do you think He told them that because morality is objectively true and real? iow did God just make up the law about abstaining from that one tree? as a sort of test maybe? or did He merely tell them the morally necessary truth, which...

Satan whispered to Eve, whereas Cain killed Abel. I'm just saying the latter is the violence which resulted from the former. I don't necessarily think we're at odds.