On 10/18/2014 7:36 AM, Platonist Guitar Cowboy wrote:
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I question whether his arguments represent merely the other side of rather literal
Christian cultural coin, where it is o.k. to be patronizing in using psychological trick
like talking down to people about politeness and cultural etiquette etc. And this is
ugly since it presupposes sense of superiority instead of clash or exchange of
ideas/questions of people who see eye to eye.
A culture that, in what we call the "west", is firmly planted on Christian models of
family, politics, work, sexuality, decency etc. He declares that he is not Christian,
and that atheism is not equivalent with or part of the culture it refers to in negation.
It would be somewhat consistent to expect then, that an atheist rejects and distances
themselves from institutions of family, marriage, ethics, decency, lifestyles etc.
derived from Christian background. But he denies.
"The proof...is incontrovertible, to wit, that the common law existed while the Angle-
Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never heard the name Christ pronounced, or
knew that such a character existed. What a conspiracy this, between Church and State!"
--- Thomas Jefferson, 1824 letter to John Cartwright on why the law is not based on
Chistianity
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