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Originally Posted by kerry
I certainly think everyone has a right to believe whatever they want and official repression of ideas is not good. However, the kind of culture we have is based on critical, public analysis of knowledge. People put ideas out into the public sphere and other people analyze and criticize them. If culture were to revert to claims to authority in either people, institutions or texts, the world as we know it would change radically and for the worse in my opinion.
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Even before I became a believer, when I saw myself as both a rationalist and a pragmatist I would find your statement inaccurate.
People are highly irrational, do not want to have reasoned discourse and do not make decisions in that manner.
They never have and they never will. In fact they are not capable of such.
Appeal to that approach is either a rhetorical device for the debater to win their argument or the presenter is unaware of their own self-deception.
Further I make no request that any one votes, acts, performs in a certain manner because of my beliefs. If asked I give the best answers I can. I turn to Biblical authority to find my identity. I make no requirement that others do so.
I am one of the most analytical, rational, mental-oriented persons I know. There are thousands of people from the past 40+ years who would concur. I spent most of my life begging people to think clearly. I still do.
Everyone has non-rational components that are fundamental to their identity and behavior. Humans cannot exist without them.
In many ways my distaste for the current of intellectual thought from Rousseau forward is its intellectual dishonesty, not that is threatens my Faith.
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