I know yer not saying that.Fist and Faith wrote:I don't have any idea why you think I'm saying that. I'm saying no one should say, "I shouldn't let my faith influence my decisions when we're talking about ____." It doesn't matter what you fill in the blank with.
Yet, you are saying that it should've been deleted because … for no apparent reason that I can descry, other than something about "the point of the conversation." Something which reads like "Faith-then-politics is A-OK" but "Politics-then-faith is No-Can-Go" (a distinction without a difference for the integrated Catholic worldview).
But what else should the point of the convo be if it's not about Civility vs Incivility? If it's not about the choice between a measured concern for the Common Good vs a Scorched-Earth Culture-War Demonization?
Cuz my faith says that an Uncivilized War-Footing is an unfaithful stance — a prepolitical philosophico-theological position which can only translate into Injustice.
- Civility is the condition, the sine qua non, of politics.
- In contrast, War/Demonization is the breakdown or abeyance of politics.