[Mitch Muncy 03/03 02:59 PM]Such an integrated view of life is easy to ridicule, and impossible to put fully into practice (particularly if one believes in original sin), but perfect markets don't exist either, so what?
I think Bruce and Frederica have cut to the heart of CCs with their posts on this theme. In a sense, there are no “little things” because there is always a “who”, a “what”, a “when/how”, and a “why” involved in any choice, and these elements are open to moral evaluation.
I see CCs as a call for serious self-evaluation. Let’s take the most “mainstream” person you can imagine (who wouldn’t be any kind of conservative). It is possible, perhaps likely, that after deep reflection such a person would conclude that he was doing exactly what God wanted him to do, at least in general (we all have to work on the details all the time). Even if he didn’t change a thing about his “big picture”, wouldn’t the very act of searching his conscience and thinking about his life as a vocation renew him and help him to be even happier than he might have already been?
