The musings and meandering thoughts of a crotchety old man as he observes life in the world and in a small, rural town in South East Nebraska. My Pledge-Nulla dies sine linea-Not a day with out a line.
Stand Alone Pages on 'Musings of an Old Curmudgeon'
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27 November 2019
Word of the Day: Liberalism
LIBERALISM. Until the eighteenth century the term generally meant whatever
was worthy of a free man, e.g., as applied to the liberal arts or a liberal
education. This meaning is still current, but at least since the French Revolution
liberalism has become more or less identified with a philosophy that stresses
human freedom to the neglect and even denial of the rights of God in religion,
the rights of society in civil law, and the rights of the Church in her relations to the State. It was in this sense that liberalism
was condemned by Pope Pius IX in 1864 in the Syllabus of Errors (Denzinger,
2977-80).
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