Hi Billy, On Apr 22, 2013, at 4:47 PM, [email protected] wrote: > They are fighting the culture war moralistically, not cosmologically. They > have not only lost the culture, but unless they understand the nature of the > fight and change their strategy to fight cosmologically, within a few > generations they may also lose their religion. > > “The death of a culture begins when its normative institutions fail to > communicate ideals in ways that remain inwardly compelling,” Rieff writes. By > that standard, Christianity in America, if not American spirituality, is in > mortal danger. The future is not foreordained: Taylor shares much of Rieff’s > historical analysis but is more hopeful about the potential for renewal. > Still, if the faith does not recover, the historical autopsy will conclude > that gay marriage was not a cause but a symptom, the sign that revealed the > patient’s terminal condition.
I completely agree. That's why I think that fighting gay marriage on political, religious, or even scientific grounds is mostly pointless. Our culture has already lost the objective grounding needed to even understand our arguments. We need to reinvent the culture from the ground up, starting by regaining moral authority. -- Ernie P. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
