"When does any Religious or Government have the authority to make orders contrary to reason?" @John Robert DiCinoYou assume
your interpretaton of "reason" (i.e. what is reasonable) is a universal constant. It isn't.
;-)"I was an officer for more than 25 years, clearly you do not know the meaning of a) valid orders and b) English comprehension."My comprehension of English is sufficient to recognize when a blowhard fails at clarifying what sort of "officer" he even
was. A
police officer? A
military officer? An officer of a
court? An officer of a
club?
"Officer" means nothing without context... officer.
:PWaving your credentials like that doesn't speak very well of your appreciation of "
reason" either.
What you've done is display a number of charming
errors in reasoning. First, the fallacious
appeal to authority. Just because you claim to be an "officer" doesn't mean you're automatically correct on all subjects relating to the orders "officers" give. Officers make mistakes.
Second... there's no proof you're an "officer" at all. Beyond
you claiming to be one. That's another fallacy known as
anecdotal evidence. Just because you say something doesn't make it true -particularly since you haven't supplied ANY proof.
...and in fact, your claim to such expertise is directly contradicted by the way you confuse a "valid" order with a "lawful" order.
All of which shows that your grasp of "
reason" is a very weak one, at best.
"You seem to be drunk on the cool aid of modern socialism,"This might come as a nasty shock, but everyone you disagree with isn't a socialist. V.R.S. made the same mistake accusing me of postmodernism.
Socialism has nothing to do with this discussion any more than, say,
fascism does. Totalitarianism
may be relevant but that could apply equally to either a socialist or fascist system.
Ultimately, Fr. Nolan's situation comes down to nothing fancier than everyday office politics. Publicly contradicting your boss is a bad career move, regardless of one's vocation (pun intended).
;-) As I already pointed out, Fr. Nolan could easily subvert a bad policy without making enemies in the chain of command.
An "officer" (a real one) would call that "leading by example".
"I hope we never meet face to face. It is a horrible thing to see a man cry like a baby when confronted with true heroic men..."True heroic men are modest.
You are not. True heroic don't pat themselves on the back.
You do. True heroic men don't get to be heroes making the stupid mistakes
you display.
No, you're not a true heroic man at all. Instead, you're another loud-mouth trading on the exploits of real heroes whose boots you aren't fit to lick, much less shine.
"I hope we never meet face to face".Indeed. Your attitude sounds like it would prove shockingly expensive. Oh, not for
you... that's for certain. Stupid people always end up costing the
rest of us a huge pile of cash.
American law doesn't recognize the concept of the "Darwin Award". Instead, it's built on the notion
all people have
equal worth..
You aren't worth the legal bills (much less the lengthy trial) necessary to convince the court otherwise.
;-)