What's wrong with Cal Thomas is what is wrong with America

First, we can see how deeply weird Thomas is on matters of ethics and morals. Imagine! Imagine a man who says he wouldn’t know that murder was wrong unless he could look it up in the Bible! Thomas seems to have no experience of moral judgment aside from what he reads in the Book.

Second, we can see how weakly Thomas reasons. Somehow, Thomas believes that accepting Scripture creates a “standard for objective truth, law, wisdom, justice”—creates a world in which judgments are made, not on the basis of “your feelings on the subject,” but on the basis of an “unchanging,” “objective” standard. But the decision to accept some particular Scripture is, of course, a subjective human judgment. So too the decision Thomas must make about how to interpret various parts of that Scripture. Somehow, Thomas thinks he describes a world from which human judgment has been removed. But it was human judgment by which Cal Thomas accepted the Bible’s authority in the first place. Earthly life always involves human judgment, though Thomas doesn’t seem to have heard.

Finally, we see from Thomas’ oddball column the growing shape of our national discourse. Increasingly, our discourse lies in the hands of the Thomases—people who want your public life run by what they find in their Bible. -- Daily Howler