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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      I think the clear issue with Western culture/ society is that the foundation was scooped out without any foundational replacement. Yes, I mean Christianity. I believe that has caused a situation where ethics/ morality is not agreed upon. 1/

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    2. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      Which is not to say everyone in Western society must be Christan. Nor am I claiming Western morality is based solely in Christianity but it does come to us through Christianity. I see no inherent problems with true liberalism, and I fully believe in it in the strictest sense. 2/

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    3. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      As in, freedom of the individual. Having lost our foundation of our morality the vacuum has created a society that is drifting in a sea of chaos. Unmoored from itself. We need a foundational identity and ideals to stand on and to stand for. 3/

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @AnglerFishLure

      OK but we got many of our core values by pushing back at Christianity. Also our moral foundations are pretty consistent. I think we are more unified in our core values than we seem because we're in the current situation and can see all the details which we can't for history.

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    5. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      Okay, I'm gonna get into the weeds a bit but if you will indulge me for a moment. Is it that we got many of our moral values by pushing back at Christianity or that we pushed back against the Christian authorities to apply the moral values of Christianity more correctly? 1/

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    6. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      I don't know but I think it's a valid question. I am definitely not advocating that we must all be Christian and I am very very much against any church/ state marriage in even the slightest. Christianity is sort of beside the point I want to actually bring up. 2/

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    7. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      Again, sorry for the long winded reply. The main question I have for an atheistic morality does it sell universally or is it culturally specific?

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @AnglerFishLure

      There is always a culturally specific nature to morality, atheistic or theistic.

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    9. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      Well, yes. I make no claim of expertise, but I do claim familiarity with history and world cultures. I think an important question is there another culture that has placed such a high importance on the individual as Western culture. I'm not aware of any, but maybe there is.

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    10. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

      I ask that specifically because as I understand it value for the individual is the foundation if liberalism

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 20
      Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @AnglerFishLure

      Yes, Christianity is not keen on it and an accusation of atheists is that they are too individualistic. I wrote a paper on this in Augustinian confessionalism,

      9:22 AM - 20 Jan 2018
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        2. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

          I disagree. I see individualism as the basis of Christianity. Out of the gate the Bible states that the individual is divine. There's no doubt that Church have oppose authorities individualism and independence. It's valid to separate the ideal from it's practicioners IMO

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 20
          Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @AnglerFishLure

          No. Christians are not supposed to be individuals. They're meant to emulate Christ and avoid pride and love God above everything. That makes individuality harder.

          1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
        4. Terynce Tzu (TAFKA Terr bear  🐻)‏ @AnglerFishLure Jan 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @RonaldDPotts1

          There are many factions of Christianity and there have been many reforms within each.

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        2. Ronald D. Potts  🇺🇲‏ @RonaldDPotts1 Jan 20
          Replying to @HPluckrose @AnglerFishLure

          You'll find a companion in me for individualism, liberalism, and, I think, morality. My only reason for even approaching a defense for Christianity is that I think it need not be attacked or denigrated. I don't think it needs to be foremost either.

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        3. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Jan 20
          Replying to @RonaldDPotts1 @AnglerFishLure

          I accept and value that. I still don't like Christianity much tho. Christians? Quite possibly.

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