yeah some of the angry QTs had me thinking that aggressive social dechristianization was a big mistake independent of ones belief in christianity maybe people need transcendent direction to become good and the gospel does this efficientlyhttps://twitter.com/00lshr/status/1387231853619388416 …
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If people who claimed to believe it, would believe it... It would make everything better.
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Chesterton fans would probably quote his bit about virtues coming untethered and causing more damage to society than vices Compassion has to be situated properly to be good
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Paying more attention to right wing politics has entirely changed my appraisal of Christianity. Once people drop the idea of the inherent moral worth of all human beings, they don't rederive it from something else, and slip gradually into ethnonationalism.
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Liberalism (in the old sense) stems from the understanding that diversity (in the old sense, as an ensemble of behaviors/beliefs/strategies) is an engine of economic growth. But it's very unnatural for humans, and requires cultivation of values like tolerance, peace, humility...
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...and most of all, minding your own fucking business, which is the fusion of the three. Communism goes straight for the carotid of minding-your-own-business and tears it out.
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I wrote an essay about this—Christianity is a constant celebration of the miracle of self-denying forgiveness, the possibility of which is traceable to one very conspicuous point https://fxxfy.net/2020/03/10/forgiveness-christian-and-otherwise/ …
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thanks for this (really). i will think on it. tangentially i cant remember what this was from (something either daoist or Confucian) and im desperate for the context as a point of comparisonhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1049702446153388032?s=19 …
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Thoughtful Christians often admit they are hypocrites while maintaining these ideas are important, which I have come to find charming. Without the faithful, I'm not sure the idea of a universal moral framework would have survived at all. Rational people seem to actively hate it.
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