LINK: I was going to take issue with J.P. on the subject of his post, but as I was writing up the syllogisms and figuring out the analogies, it occurred to me that he'd stuck in all the necessary bits to make it work. I still have some reservations that he's underplaying the role of grace in allowing good actions to happen, and is maybe glossing over some of the complications that come from the inevitability of sin, but it's a blog post, not an essay. So, yeah, read it--it's interesting.
update: "We have removed our focus from the “fear of the Lord”, which induces us to do His will..." something strikes me as off with this formulation. I think this might be an instance of my first-generation Protestantness coming out. I think (it's late, I may think differently in the morning) that we do what God wants no matter what (how Calvinist is that of me?), and the question of our attitude towards God merely differentiates harmony and dissonance towards those ends. But this may be a distinction without a difference.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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