{"id":8686,"date":"2002-09-14T12:23:15","date_gmt":"2002-09-14T17:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/09\/14\/mans-sanctuary-the-development-of-conscience-and-liberty\/"},"modified":"2002-09-14T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2002-09-14T17:23:15","slug":"mans-sanctuary-the-development-of-conscience-and-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/09\/mans-sanctuary-the-development-of-conscience-and-liberty\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#039;s Sanctuary: The Development Of Conscience And Liberty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=#3333ff>Moral defects lead to the loss of<br \/>\nliberty. So we may say that it flourishes jointly with conscience. Decay of the<br \/>\none brings about decay of the other. Democracy undermines conscience by making<br \/>\nmen prefer what others think best to what they think best themselves. So it<br \/>\ndemoralizes like excess authority. It relieves men from the sense of<br \/>\nresponsibility and the duty of effort.<\/font> &#8212; Lord Acton<\/p>\n<p>This <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.petersnet.net\/research\/retrieve.cfm?RecNum=4437\">essay<\/a> by<br \/>\nWilliam Edmund Fahey of the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and<br \/>\nLiberty has observations about conscience and the relationship between religious<br \/>\nand civil freedoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moral defects lead to the loss of liberty. So we may say that it flourishes jointly with conscience. Decay of the one brings about decay of the other. Democracy undermines&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}