I criticise pomo more than I criticise religion now for same reason I criticise left more than right. Problem less clear to reasonable ppl
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I think there are objective truths, that it matters what they are & that there are better & worse ways of getting to them.
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Truth matters in itself, separately from the consequences of disregarding reason & evidence as the way to establish what is true.
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That this seems to many like a naive and outdated position to take is extremely troubling.
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So I am now writing a thing on the difference between valuing nuance, uncertainty, open-mindedness & being an obscurantist woo-merchant.
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Because, evidently, this is unclear to some people.
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I wrote a thing about the value of being consistently sceptical & liberal recently, ICYMI.https://areomagazine.com/2017/05/15/where-now-for-new-atheists/ …
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