"The intrinsic problem with secular society is essentially atheism's warrant problem writ large. Just as atheism permits individual moralities, but no objective and universally applicable moral structure, secular society has no material foundations upon which to sustain itself. The attempt to manufacture theoretical foundations are fruitless, because the perfectly reasonable hypotheses of intellectuals working in the abstract have no connection to the way in which everyone else actually lives their lives.
"Hence the irrelevance of those who suggest that morals "could be" based on a happiness/suffering metric or ask "why couldn't" a society be founded on one proposed secular principle or another. Many of these ideas could, in theory, exist, but the empirical and observable reality is that they do not exist, they have never existed, no one abides by them, and no one is actually willing to risk anything to ensure their survival.
"It is now eminently clear that those who are quick to criticize the Spanish Inquisition 176 years after its abolition would not have uttered a peep against it if they lived in Queen Isabella's Castile. The ideals that the secularists have proposed to substitute for the Christian values of the traditional West are quite clearly counterfeit, and unlike Christianity, cannot survive in competition with more rigorous rivals. As can be seen in India, Africa, and parts of Asia, only paganism and Christian revival are capable of competing successfully with aggressive Islam, which is why it is increasingly apparent that the 20th century secular societies will turn out to be as unsustainable and nearly as short-lived as the financial system that made them possible."
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Quote of the Day 04.27.10
Occasionally Vox nails it. This quote is in regard to the pusillanimous response to the hardly veiled threat from Islamists regarding South Park's Mohammed sketch. I don't watch South Park (never even seen it), and couldn't care less about them; but they seem to be a cultural belwether for cowardly Leftist snark from what I can tell second hand.
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Actually, I think you'd like South Park--Matt and Trey are what you'd call 'socially liberal,' but also fiscally conservative and even pro-religion at some points--look up "Go God Go" on Wikipedia, they made two whole episodes which mainly poked fun at Richard Dawkins.
Vox is an interesting cat. I'm reading his Irrational Atheist right now.
Hmmm, Maybe.
I don't generally care for the ridicule approach though. When I was in junior high school I thought that MAD magazine was hot stuff. But I soon discovered that their ridicule was empty of real content: it was not bona fide argumentation, it was generally just attacking the individual as in Ad Hominems.
It is unfortunate that ridicule is as influential as it seems to be. TV seems to be loaded with it.
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