* Is the European economy being hurt by secularism? Stuart Varney and Father Jonathan Morris think so.
* President Obama has ordered hospital visitation rights for gay and lesbian couples.
* Nebraska lawmakers and abortion opponents want to use "pain" as a threshold for determining when abortion is acceptable; Jeff Schweitzer calls their bluff.
* A federal court has ruled that the National Day of Prayer in the U.S. is unconstitutional.
* A scholar of religion, Bruce Waltke, has resigned from Florida's Reformed Theological Seminary after endorsing the theory of evolution.
* A long feature piece on Paul Kurtz: "Redirecting a long life of godlessness."
* A controversial bishop has been fined $13,500 for denying the severity of the Holocaust.
* Stanley Fish argues, citing Habermas, that secular reason is missing something.
* President Obama has ordered hospital visitation rights for gay and lesbian couples.
* Nebraska lawmakers and abortion opponents want to use "pain" as a threshold for determining when abortion is acceptable; Jeff Schweitzer calls their bluff.
* A federal court has ruled that the National Day of Prayer in the U.S. is unconstitutional.
* A scholar of religion, Bruce Waltke, has resigned from Florida's Reformed Theological Seminary after endorsing the theory of evolution.
* A long feature piece on Paul Kurtz: "Redirecting a long life of godlessness."
* A controversial bishop has been fined $13,500 for denying the severity of the Holocaust.
* Stanley Fish argues, citing Habermas, that secular reason is missing something.
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ReplyDelete"President Obama has ordered hospital visitation rights for gay and lesbian couples."
ReplyDeleteIt's about damn time.
"Stanley Fish argues, citing Habermas, that secular reason is missing something."
ReplyDeleteI hope this is a pick of yours simply because you find it interesting, not because you find it correct. For example, Fish's idea that a single "Enlightenment rational morality" even exists as a convenient target at which one can lob criticism such as not being able to "foster any impulse toward solidarity" is questionable. Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment thinkers have had multiple ideas on secular morality, and I don't think they deserve such a broad-brush dismissal. Also, Fish is vague on what religion is supposed to add. He handwaves in the direction of religion providing solidarity, but doesn't really say how it would do that.
J.J.R.
ReplyDeleteYou stated, //"Enlightenment rational morality" even exists as a convenient target at which one can lob criticism such as not being able to "foster any impulse toward solidarity" is questionable.//
I think that the only way to redeem "Enlightenment rational morality" is to demonstrate that it can give rise to viable moral ABSOLUTES. However, this is the very thing that secularism disdains.
Consequently, it will be hard to "foster any impulse toward solidarity" on merely short-sighted pragmatic concerns. These are adequate when it comes to finding my next meal, but when it’s a question of finding a meaning or purpose, pragmatism – by definition – goes no further than getting my needs met.
It would be charitable to say that Father Morris is a non-economist.
ReplyDeleteBe sure to add this fine and very relevant article to your picks:
ReplyDeletehttp://chronicle.com/article/Science-Warriors-Ego-Trips/65186/.
Beau,
ReplyDeleteyeah, I saw the review. As someone commented on my Facebook page, I must be doing something right if I cn be simultaneously accused of accommodationism and scientism...