Recommended! although I have some problems with it. A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernityhttps://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/ …
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Replying to @andrevanes
I see no answer to this problem of Modernity, the spiritual vacuum: http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/1.791954 … Could be outside the scope:pic.twitter.com/zkklG2UHjq
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Replying to @andrevanes
What spiritual vacuum? For people for whom 'spirituality' is meaningful, modern values are worthwhile. Freedom to engage in whatever that is
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I will read the essay again and come back to this. Did not find an analysis of why the extremes came into existence, might have overlooked.
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Modernity replaced the truth of religion by the truth of science, but not everyone has equal access to scientific truth, hence the vacuum.
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They didn't have any more access to religion than they have to science now. Amusing studies on what late medieval ppl thought Xtianity was
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But I digress. Science doesn't fill the same social & psychological needs as religion. It succeeded it as an epistemology, that's all.
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My co-author wrote a book about understanding those social & psychological needs. Mine is the first review. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everybody-Wrong-About-James-Lindsay-ebook/dp/B016TX3RP6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502975362&sr=8-1&keywords=everybody+is+wrong+about+god …
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