Freedom Is The Emancipation From The Arbitrary

The Only Standard We Have For Judging All Of Our Social, Economic, And Political Institutions And Arrangements As Just Or Unjust, As Good Or Bad, As Better Or Worse, Derives From Our Conception Of The Good Life For Man On Earth, And From Our Conviction That, Given Certain External Conditions, It Is Possible For Men To Make Good Lives For Themselves By Their Own Efforts.

We Acknowledge But One Motive - To Follow The Truth As We Know It, Whithersoever It May Lead Us; But In Our Heart Of Hearts We Are Well Assured That The Truth Which Has Made Us Free, Will In The End Make Us Glad Also.

Men Value Things In Three Ways: As Useful, As Pleasant Or Sources Of Pleasure, And As Excellent, Or As Intrinsically Admirable Or Honorable.

Reading Is A Basic Tool In The Living Of A Good Life.

Sin Is Not Only Manifested In Certain Acts That Are Forbidden By Divine Command. Sin Also Appears In Attitudes And Dispositions And Feelings. Lust And Hate Are Sins As Well As Adultery And Murder. And, In The Traditional Christian View, Despair And Chronic Boredom - Unaccompanied By Any Vicious Act - Are Serious Sins. They Are Expressions Of Man's Separation From God, As The Ultimate Good, Meaning, And End Of Human Existence.