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Depraved conscience turns out to be as different from genuine ignorance as it is from honest recognition.

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There are some forms of stupidity that one must be highly intelligent and educated to achieve.

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As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten. A colleague tells me that some of his fellow legal scholars call child molestation "intergenerational intimacy": that's euphemism. A good-hearted editor tried to talk me out of using the term "sodomy": that's avoidance. My students don't know the word "fornication" at all: that's forgetfulness.

J. Budziszewski

J. Budziszewski

J. Budziszewski

Born: 1952 (age 72)

Bio: J. Budziszewski is professor of government at the University of Texas, Austin, where he has taught since 1981. He specializes in ethics, political philosophy and the interaction of these two fields with religion and theology.

Known for:

What We Can't Not Know (2003)
On the Meaning of Sex (2012)
How to stay Christian in college (1999)
The Revenge of Conscience (1999)
Written on the heart (1997)

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