@SohrabAhmari Definitely a preferred title of the Dominicans, along with Queen of Preachers, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary.

@CulturamVitae @FeserEdward

@patsw @FeserEdward Whether a family is to work the field or own the field can be a matter of inheritance.

@TalentEvaluator @FeserEdward Lions are natural. Also, notoriously harmful.

@iustumpretium @FeserEdward If I grew my family’s estate to twice it’s original size, I could be assured that my grandchildren would not reap the rewards of that expansion. That’s the effect of the Jubilee.

I only realized just now that today is the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s LIBERTAS. Providentially, some of my reflections on the meaning of true liberty were published today by @rev_suroeste! “The False Liberty of Liberalism” 👇👇👇

@_river_run @FeserEdward Lol the only coded language here is you outing yourself by accusing me of coded language.

@_river_run @FeserEdward Take the example of the Jubilee laws. When one family faces hard times and needs to sell property to another family this inequality is a serious hindrance to the flourishing of future generations of the poorer family who are now workers on the land and not owners.

@_river_run @FeserEdward I didn’t say that inequalities are per se harmful. That’s why I qualified it by referring to harmful inequalities as a *type* of inequality. Nevertheless it seems clear that extreme inequalities, especially unearned ones, are contrary to the common good.

@ByzCat 👀

@ByzCat @StMichael71 Yeah I look forward to reading it. You have my email.

@StMichael71 Rather the point is that liberals and Pelagians proceed from the same faulty understanding of freedom as an underdetermined arbitrary power to choose either good or evil. In this way, both metaphysical and political libertarians spring from the same root.

@doozy_j123 Well then your argument is pretty circular. It’s not that predestination is a source of oppression, rather your claim is that every oppressive society, definitionally, believes in some kind of “predestination.” This is a very uninteresting claim.

@doozy_j123 Are secular/atheistic societies ever oppressive?

@doozy_j123 But God does favor some and excludes others. (And that’s not what double predestination means.) And if it was, then what’s the explanation for oppression outside or before societies that believed in divine predestination?

@RevDrOlds You can read Leo for yourself, though it is significantly longer than 280 characters.