[lbo-talk] The misuse of political movements for essentially religious ends

Joseph Catron jncatron at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 16:26:10 PST 2015


So as I understand it, you want to tell King Salman his system of governance is "wrong," but you aren't even ready to explain what the word means?

Well, I'd hardly blame him if he declined to give you the time of day.

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:

That's for *you" to say. It was you who wrote "one thing that drives me
> batty
> > about a certain breed of atheist ideologues (but by no means all
> atheists):
> > their insistence that you don't need religion to tell right from wrong."
>
> Since you proclaim the need for "religion" to "tell right from wrong," it
> is for you to say what "wrong" means in that proposition. And also just
> how "religion" is supposed to instruct us in making that distinction.

-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."



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