Leftism understood as secularised protestantism is an extension of religious ideas into politics. This is something that will always proceed badly probably even if the religious ideas were true. Even if the light of god dwells within everyone you'd still....
I'll rephrase... Keeping religious ideas out of government. Isn't formalism a way of de-politicising how we govern?
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This was always my primary complaint with early NRx, tbh. The market is driven (at least in part) by religious beliefs, and removing them can only be temporary, creating a vacuum to be filled by other beliefs that claim they are not beliefs.
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What are some examples of religious beliefs driving markets? I'm not saying they don't just trying to get more of a handle on this
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Any belief, really, but the clearest is Healthcare.
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Markets for healthcare are driven by physical need in the most direct sense, how is it religious?
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What is physical need? It's all theological. Infanticide, euthanasia, cancer treatment for octogenarians, fertility treatment for 37+ year old women, elective surgery, antibiotics for minor infections, psychologists, psychopharmaceuticals, everything.
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True, religious ideas enter around those issues but the core of healthcare is just the alleviation of pain and dysfunction, I wouldn't see that as having a theological edge
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Let me try to rephrase my point. Our physical perceptions, even including pain and dysfunction, are subservient to our religious beliefs.
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Pain and dysfunction are extremely variable. When you have children, your will quickly notice that the degree of pain am injury inflicts is based more on surprise than on actual damage.
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