No Ayaan, the Tribalism of religion will not save us. The ideas of the Enlightenment created the West despite Christianity. Only Philosophy, the Enlightenment ideas and the values of Individualism can save us...
No Ayaan, the Tribalism of religion will not save us. The ideas of the Enlightenment created the West despite Christianity. Only Philosophy, the Enlightenment ideas and the values of Individualism can save us...
You say, "Only Philosophy, the Enlightenment ideas and the values of Individualism can save us..."
But that is you overlooking the problem. What obligation have we to hold that as "our" philosophy.
Wasn't it Hume who is credited with, "You can't get an ought from an is."
Or as Ayaan's inspiration, even from an atheist/agnostic Tom Holland has noted,
"To believe in human rights requires just as much a leap of faith as believing that the Lord Jesus Christ rose on the third day and ascended into heaven."
That is absurd and IS the problem. 1st: Ought is romanticism and Is is reality. 2nd: individual rights are tangible while christ rising on the 3rd day is fantasy. In other words your entire statement is a fallacy of logic...
What is absurd? Atheist/agnostic Tom Holland's, "To believe in human rights requires just as much a leap of faith as believing that the Lord Jesus Christ rose on the third day and ascended into heaven."
Maybe you'll have to take it up with the atheist's who are suddenly falling over themselves backpedaling the over-the-top propaganda they are suddenly peddling in an attempt to woo Ayaan back. She spent 20 years in that camp and very likely saw that they couldn't substantiate their piffle.
Here is Michael Shermer who over the years has offered some of the most vacuous tripe in the most prestigious of places dumping his twaddle.
Suddenly in his entreaty to Ayaan he answers his rhetorical, "Are there good reasons to believe in God?" with his apparently newfound, "I will simply note that both sides have strong arguments ..."
Surely Ayaan would be tempted to ask why it has taken Shermer so long to reveal this belief of his.
You say, "In other words your entire statement is a fallacy of logic..."
Is that "the unnamed fallacy" or "the fallacy in name only"? :)
No Ayaan, the Tribalism of religion will not save us. The ideas of the Enlightenment created the West despite Christianity. Only Philosophy, the Enlightenment ideas and the values of Individualism can save us...
You say, "Only Philosophy, the Enlightenment ideas and the values of Individualism can save us..."
But that is you overlooking the problem. What obligation have we to hold that as "our" philosophy.
Wasn't it Hume who is credited with, "You can't get an ought from an is."
Or as Ayaan's inspiration, even from an atheist/agnostic Tom Holland has noted,
"To believe in human rights requires just as much a leap of faith as believing that the Lord Jesus Christ rose on the third day and ascended into heaven."
https://youtu.be/mG0VLbP_35I?si=LShViHBNeONgmHOg&t=129
That is absurd and IS the problem. 1st: Ought is romanticism and Is is reality. 2nd: individual rights are tangible while christ rising on the 3rd day is fantasy. In other words your entire statement is a fallacy of logic...
You say, "That is absurd and IS the problem."
What is absurd? Atheist/agnostic Tom Holland's, "To believe in human rights requires just as much a leap of faith as believing that the Lord Jesus Christ rose on the third day and ascended into heaven."
Maybe you'll have to take it up with the atheist's who are suddenly falling over themselves backpedaling the over-the-top propaganda they are suddenly peddling in an attempt to woo Ayaan back. She spent 20 years in that camp and very likely saw that they couldn't substantiate their piffle.
Here is Michael Shermer who over the years has offered some of the most vacuous tripe in the most prestigious of places dumping his twaddle.
Suddenly in his entreaty to Ayaan he answers his rhetorical, "Are there good reasons to believe in God?" with his apparently newfound, "I will simply note that both sides have strong arguments ..."
Surely Ayaan would be tempted to ask why it has taken Shermer so long to reveal this belief of his.
You say, "In other words your entire statement is a fallacy of logic..."
Is that "the unnamed fallacy" or "the fallacy in name only"? :)