Comments on: Logos vs Praxis

By: whippersnapper

whippersnapper — Sun, 27 May 2007 03:58:23 +0000

I should have expressed myself more clearly, people gleaning conservative moral views from a conservative moral tradition isn’t going to change. I think that opposition to gay marriage will probabaly wain in the next 2-3 generations, but a lower percentage of people believing the bible is the inerrant word of God will have nothing to do with that.

By: Dan Miller

Dan Miller — Sun, 27 May 2007 03:54:29 +0000

“Since more and more people are going to college etc, literal religious belief should be going down, thus certain conservative moral views should also be descendant. But that clearly isn’t happening.”

Are you sure it’s not? Look at the time series for opposition to gay marriage–it’s basically a solid descent. People under 30 actually support gay marriage by a pretty solid margin. I bet that in 1 or 2 generations this will be a non-issue, like inter-racial dating is today.

By: JimPortlandOR

JimPortlandOR — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:38:00 +0000

A long fight indeed. I read today (maybe at dKos?) that nearly half the people believe the sun revolves around the earth.

that when one says they believe the Bible to be the inerrant word of God…

inerrant, except when it is inconvenient: cloven animals (pigs and deer) and shellfish (lobster, shrimp), for example are forbidden. And don’t mention any of the Jesus said things to them either, like honoring the poor and condemning the rich.

It is only inerrant when they say so.

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By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Sun, 27 May 2007 01:34:31 +0000

An excellent point. What’s interesting is that you could probably say the same thing about any group of people who claim adherence to a formal body of dogma. For instance, Whitaker Chambers claimed that when he was a Marxist he had no interest in concepts like the labor theory of value and I think it’s reasonable to suppose he was typical of “Marxists.”

Likewise, among the 25% of Americans who tell pollsters they believe in straight-up evolution, pretty few of them could explain the basics of natural selection, let alone things like genetic drift and punctuated equilibrium. Not that I should be smug as I believe in quantum physics even though I couldn’t begin to explain it.