Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (Part 2)

Last week we compared liberalism (what Thomas Sowell calls the Unconstrained Vision) to the Ten Commandments; today it's time to turn the same scrutiny on conservatism (the Constrained Vision). What happens when conservatism, rather than the Bible, becomes our default authority?

This Episode Features: Civil Religion; Rotten Oranges; Quacking Like A Christian; Suddenly, Scientology!; As Real As Burnt Bacon; The Apotheosis of George Washington; Honesty Is A Policy; and Everyone Is Now Most Assuredly Mad At Us.

Transcript: https://bit.ly/3gkGoDK-htz-49

Links:

A Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell: https://amzn.to/31jQRcm

Death in the City - Francis A. Schaeffer: https://amzn.to/3ouYeq6

For a Time Such as This - Jim Halsey: https://amzn.to/36Lj5zH

Total Truth - Nancy Pearcey: https://amzn.to/2VHsbqJ

Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke: https://oll.libertyfund.org/page/john-locke-two-treatises-1689

Lex Rex - Samuel Rutherford: https://www.monergism.com/lex-rex-ebook

The Constitution of the United States: https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript

The Apotheosis of George Washington - Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apotheosis_of_Washington

The Children's Story - James Clavell: https://amzn.to/3lHQG1L

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett: https://amzn.to/31lWbwk

Federalist 51 - James Madison: https://bit.ly/3mQ6alx

Horatius at the Bridge - Thomas Babington Macaulay: https://www.thoughtco.com/horatius-at-the-bridge-4070724

McGuffey's Readers: https://amzn.to/2JE8PR0

Recos:

In Search of the City on a Hill - Richard M. Gamble: http://bookstore.hillsdale.edu/MerchDetail?MerchID=725322

The Stormlight Archives - Brandon Sanderson: https://amzn.to/37GsyHx

Christmas Carolling in Public Buildings