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I liken it to the law of gravity: everyone falls down cliffs whether they believe in gravity or not. Similarly with the Christian ethic: it'll work regardless
by yters 7y ago
I liken it to the law of gravity: everyone falls down cliffs whether they believe in gravity or not.
Similarly with the Christian ethic: it'll work regardless of whether everyone believes the underlying rationale. In fact, that is what happened in the West, its social construct is based on the Christian ethic, and continues to function despite most of the West no longer believing the underlying reason.
- dwaltrip 7y agoAh ok, yeah I'm game with importing values and perspectives, which as you state has already happened to a certain degree. It is a non-trivial process through, and I do believe we need to build up a new shared foundation, supporting layer, rituals, etc. that don't have the supernatural baggage.
- yters 7y agoIt isn't possible without the 'supernatural baggage'. You need a basis for why humans are different, but if everything reduces to natural processes humans are fundamentally the same thing as everything else.