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Augustine priorities rightly ordered affections, and the red pilled among us.

Monday, August 1st, 2022.

Introduction.

I think we need Augustine's help to get us out of a frightful model that our partisan

rancor has gotten us into.

I'm not talking about the enmity between the orcs and elves, between the commies and

the regular people, but rather about the downstream tumult among professing Christians.

There is a great deal of confusion in our ranks about how we are to structure and order

our affections, and so we need to talk about it more and yell about it less.

Quote.

St. Augustine defines virtue as ordo amorus, the ordinent condition of the affections in

which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love, which is appropriate to it.

Aristotle says that the aim of education is to make the people like and dislike what

he ought.

CS Lewis, the abolition of man.

Put another way.

A virtuous Christian man can love Christ, his wife, his children, his nation, his region,

his house, his dog, and his favorite coffee cup.

What he cannot do, while remaining virtuous, is to get anything in this list out of place

or out of order.

If he loves his wife more than Christ, he cannot be Christ's disciple.

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