Under the guise of providing an intellectual foundation for the American achievement, Meir Soloveichik, writing for Bari Weiss’s Free Press, argues that there can be no rational foundation for that achievement.
And on this Sunday morning, hundreds of millions of kids are getting their religious philosophy =
Epistemology = Faith, Feeling, Believing
Ethics/Morality = Living for God, living for Others
Metaphysics = Magical universes of unseen forces for Good and Evil, Evil is powerful
Religion = giving the exact opposite philosophy they need to flourish on this earth
And think about the concept = "give me the kid until the age of seven".... true? If so,
even when the child later grasps new concepts in philosophy... do they integrate, somehow messy as hell, into their new philosophy ... I know I did. Crippling.
Please don't cripple the next generation with billions, yes, billions, being raised religious, philosophically speaking.....
Sharp takedown of Soloveichik's argument. The part about Christian defenses of slavery lasting a century after the Enlightenment really undercuts any claim that biblical tradition naturally leads to equality. I've noticed how often modern religious apologists retro fit Enlightenment values back into ancient texts and call it tradition. The Stoics' articulation of shared rational capacity was genuinly ahead of its time even if incomplete. Dunno why we keep pretending theological frameworks are necessary when they've historically been the main obstruc tion to universal rights.
And on this Sunday morning, hundreds of millions of kids are getting their religious philosophy =
Epistemology = Faith, Feeling, Believing
Ethics/Morality = Living for God, living for Others
Metaphysics = Magical universes of unseen forces for Good and Evil, Evil is powerful
Religion = giving the exact opposite philosophy they need to flourish on this earth
And think about the concept = "give me the kid until the age of seven".... true? If so,
even when the child later grasps new concepts in philosophy... do they integrate, somehow messy as hell, into their new philosophy ... I know I did. Crippling.
Please don't cripple the next generation with billions, yes, billions, being raised religious, philosophically speaking.....
Happy Sunday, Keep up the good work
Human beings are born tabula rasa — brand new people in the world. What we each have at birth individually and equally is innocence.
Humans may be born enslaved, with developmental problems, “normal” or exceptional.
The actual goal of good governance is “liberty and justice for all” — that we keep what we earn, and we get only what we deserve: JUSTICE.
Sharp takedown of Soloveichik's argument. The part about Christian defenses of slavery lasting a century after the Enlightenment really undercuts any claim that biblical tradition naturally leads to equality. I've noticed how often modern religious apologists retro fit Enlightenment values back into ancient texts and call it tradition. The Stoics' articulation of shared rational capacity was genuinly ahead of its time even if incomplete. Dunno why we keep pretending theological frameworks are necessary when they've historically been the main obstruc tion to universal rights.
It's so encouraging to see a defense of equality based on natural rights, rather than on irrelevant scripture.