“Love isn't blind. Love is reasonable. God is pure love, but He is also pure reason. If you separate reason from faith you'll end in violence. Either way, if you have a purely rationalistic scheme that is atheistic, for instance Communism was for social justice. Fascism was for the nation-state, which isn't automatically a bad thing.” IfsWayEndsStatesReasonNationsSocialJusticeLove IsViolencePureSocial JusticeBlindInstanceCommunismReasonableBad ThingsFascismSchemesAtheisticPure LoveBlind Love Author:Francis George
“If you, however, separate reason and faith so that it's purely a rationalistic scheme, it will end in violence. If a pure faith scheme - sometimes called the fundamentalist scheme in modern parlance - you'll end in violence too.” IfsEndsSometimesReasonViolenceModernPureSchemesFundamentalist Author:Francis George
“There is the enormous corpus of Islamic law that is very rich. However, law is one rational exercise of reason. Philosophy is very different. Philosophy wants to try to understand everything. It is a better dialogue partner with faith than law.” WantTryingDifferentReasonPhilosophyLawRichExercisePartnersEnormousDialogueRationalIslamicCorpusIslamic Law Author:Francis George
“The presumption that the law can tell us what natural institution is supposed to be is a formula for totalitarianism. There's not equality in a family; there never is. And yet for that reason, the family is condemned as patriarchal. The goal of this sort of legislation is about the destruction of the traditional family, not just marriage.” ReasonLawGoalNaturalDestructionInstitutionsTraditionalSupposed To BeFormulasLegislationTotalitarianismPresumptionTraditional Family Author:Francis George
