If There Is No Absolute Beyond Man's

The Value Of The Things Is Not In Themselves Autonomously, But That God Made Them, And Thus They Deserve To Be Treated With High Respect. The Tree In The Field Is To Be Treated With Respect. It Is Not To Be Romanticized As The Old Lady Romanticizes Her Cat (that Is, She Reads Human Reactions Into It). This Is Wrong Because It Is Not True. When You Drive The Axe Into The Tree When You Need Firewood, You Are Not Cutting Down A Person; You Are Cutting Down A Tree. But While We Should Not Romanticize The Tree, We Must Realize God Made It And It Deserves Respect Because He Made Is As A Tree.

Modern Man Has Not Only Thrown Away Christian Theology, He Has Thrown Away The Possibility Of What Our Forefathers Had As A Basis For Morality And Law.

Some Psychological And Sociological Conditioning Occurs In Every Man's Life And This Affects The Decisions He Makes. But We Must Resist The Modern Concept That All Sin Can Be Explained Merely On The Basis Of Conditioning.

What We, The Christian Community, Have To Do Is To Refuse Men The Right To Ravish Our Land, Just As We Refuse Them The Right To Ravish Our Women; To Insist That Somebody Accepts A Little Less Profit By Not Exploiting Nature.

How Should An Artist Begin To Do His Work As An Artist? I Would Insist That He Begin His Work As An Artist By Setting Out To Make A Work Of Art.