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I'll take my warnings about insidious cultural programming with a grain of salt when they come from Catholics. Thanks.
by asdfasdfasdfa 8y ago
I'll take my warnings about insidious cultural programming with a grain of salt when they come from Catholics. Thanks.
- CGamesPlay 8y agoYou should also do that when they come from atheists!
- velp 8y agoIf only "atheist" was a meaningful descriptor of how a group acts
- throwawaymath 8y agoLikewise, neither is the word “Catholic” actually a meaningful descriptor for how a group acts. Maybe we should just take the article on the merits of its content, and not its source.
- falcolas 8y agoWhen evaluating literature, ignoring the context of the literature strips significant meaning from the literature.
- artificial 8y agoSuggesting there is bias? It's pervasive and not unique to the Church. For example this article's sampling is narrow.
- throwawaymath 8y agoLiterature? This is a blog post. It’s not like I’m losing a critical piece of the Superbowl advertising zeitgeist by ignoring the identity of the authors. The Superbowl is not a figurative tool to be used as the backdrop for religion in modern advertising. If this was reposted anonymously and still stood on its own, would we have to do this song and dance? The content of this article stands on its own or it doesn’t. Ignoring it because it was written by someone with different values from your own is puerile. That was my original point.
- asdfasdfasdfa 8y agoI mean i was being in tongue in cheek, but it really seems like a "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" kind of situation.
- ahoy 8y ago"Atheists" aren't a group with any kind of institutional power or unified agenda. Unlike, for instance, the Catholic church.
- remarkEon 8y agoIs there something particularly insidious about Catholics as opposed to, say, Muslims?
- oarabbus_ 8y agoNot at all. Feel free to find the MuslimLife equivalent of this article and I'd be betting to wager the OP would say the same about them. Let's not act like he wasn't spot on, either, though.
- remarkEon 8y agoSpot on in what way? That the criticism is invalid because of the religion held by the people making the criticism?
- Chris2048 8y agoI think the implication is that the criticism may be valid, but that there is hypocrisy involved wrt author - i.e it's not really about the criticism, but the author/religion. I'm also guessing it was tongue-in-check.
- oarabbus_ 8y agoNo. It's more like the hypocrisy of schools making a criticism on banks for raising their rates.
- ahoy 8y agoNo, other than the fact that the HN audience is largely western and the Catholic Church has had much more cultural influence in western society than any Islamic institution has.
- boomboomsubban 8y agoIt's hard to imagine many other organizations with their level of experience on the subject. The analysis of the issue seems fairly spot on, and their own agenda seems fairly transparent.
- oarabbus_ 8y agoSo glad to see this comment. It really is a bit rich, isn't it?
- lm28469 8y agoAh, the famous "you can't criticize X because you're Y". You should be careful with that, it rarely leads to healthy opinions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
- Chris2048 8y agorace, sex/gender etc are all inherent personal traits. Is religion the same?