Sunday, August 25, 2019

A Thumb Encountering A Ball-Peen Hammer Is Less Stunned Than A Pop Music Critic Playing In A Deeper End Of The Pool

The stunned one makes the rather stunningly stunned observation that religion isn't guaranteed to produce moral behavior.   He quotes the beginning of a sentence I wrote yesterday without getting to the end of it, no doubt his attention as well as his reasoning petered out as it too more than the 20 seconds a TV commercial took for the likes of him to read it. 

Education is not a cure for immorality, it, like science, like an education in the law, LIKE UNIVERSITY GRANTED CREDENTIALS,  facilitates the commission of evil, any expectation that "education is the answer" if it's a secular education or, in many cases, even if it has a component of moral theology, is a popular delusion of those with such credentials.

The typical secularist-atheist-anti-Christian slam that religion stunts critical thinking proves, if nothing else, that your typical SAAC is a boob who is about as ignorant of the literature of religion as could be, which, especially in the Bible but all through it, is largely devoted to the kind of internal self-criticism which pretty much doesn't exist in most SAAC culture.  As I pointed out, huge areas of what is called science are rank beginners in that kind of internal criticism, a point which I documented the atheist, scientist Richard Lewontin made in terms of Orthodox study houses in Brooklyn.  Perhaps the Village Idiot of Queens would like to take his advice given to Carl Sagan a quarter of a century ago and go look for himself.  Though that would be too much like work.  I would imagine their argumentation and disputatious questioning would make that sentence he couldn't navigate to the end look like the easy thing it was.  

Sometimes I tell people I don't mind doing the least I could do in helping someone.  It's a joke.  It's not a joke when an allegedly educated adult won't even do the least they could do in reading a sentence while misrepresenting what was said. Though that's endemic to American popular culture, of the kind which provided Donald Trump with a presidency.

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  1. Saw that argument (that religion doesn't make you moral, so who needs it?) the same place I got the tweet about Gervais (and when comics are your intellectual avatars, you might as well be quoting Trump). It's the strawiest of straw men.

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