{"id":43025,"date":"2012-04-11T19:17:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43025"},"modified":"2012-04-11T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:22:12","slug":"the-un-as-a-transcendent-source-of-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=43025","title":{"rendered":"The UN As A Transcendent Source Of Morality"},"content":{"rendered":"

WSJ<\/a>: “The Obama Administration’s preferred global policeman\u2014the United Nations\u2014is on the Syrian case, you’ll be happy to know. Syrian government forces have been bombing and killing as much of the opposition as they can before a U.N.-negotiated ceasefire deadline Tuesday, and on Monday its troops shot five people at a refugee camp across the Syrian border inside Turkey and a cameraman who was standing in Lebanon.”<\/p>\n

On his radio show yesterday, Dennis Prager said: “As countries become more left, two of the characteristics they embrace are secularism and internationalism. The reason that ends up with vast support for the United Nations — you don’t believe in any transcendent ethic because you don’t believe in God. God is the source of a transcendent morality. But they know that you have to have a transcendent morality or there is no such thing. You can’t say that what is right for me is right for me, because then you have no argument against mass torture, mass rape, mass genocide.<\/p>\n

“Since there is no God who is the source of a trans-national and trans-individual morality, the United Nations supplants God, supplants religion. The United Nations gives you a transnational and trans-individual morality. What is right? What the United Nations says is right.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WSJ: “The Obama Administration’s preferred global policeman\u2014the United Nations\u2014is on the Syrian case, you’ll be happy to know. Syrian government forces have been bombing and killing as much of the opposition as they can before a U.N.-negotiated ceasefire deadline Tuesday, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43027,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43025\/revisions\/43027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}