49 - Social Vision and the Ten Commandments (part 2)
Channel: Halting Toward Zion
Date: 2020-12-07

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