Yes, the fundamental idea of a UN as a global forum isn’t necessarily bad. However, it has entirely been taken over by the left and the corrupt Third World (also usually Marxist) and is completely worthless by now. But then, we’ve seen the US, in the space of a few short months, move into that camp and start defending Islamic and Communist dictators and evil in the Middle East and Latin America and Asia.
I think the significant thing is that he says that it should be based on moral values, that is, Christian values but those that in a sense are common to all because they are part of natural law. That’s the whole difference.
The Pope believes in natural law; the UN and suddenly the US do not, and believe only in positive law, that is, laws made by states or people not necessarily based on natural law but reflecting things that those people or states find convenient at a given moment. This enables them to take a thoroughly utlitiarian view of human life, which is of value only to the degree that the state assigns it a value.
I’m glad to see that there’s one literate person left on FR. Kudos for a post well done.
WRONG.
AS any even partial reading of the earlier half ot the quotes ref’d in my tagline would document.
The whole thing was set up deliberately to move the world toward global government . . .
drum roll . . .
by folks anti-God, anti-family and essentially sold out to the world government Scripture warns will be headed by satan.
That’s what the UN was FOUNDED in behalf of.
Any other blather about it is either ignorance or willful blindness.