tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post377317526552833171..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Losing Christian faith *entails* abandoning Christian moralityBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-44609600300988289062013-08-03T08:01:47.603+01:002013-08-03T08:01:47.603+01:00@Asher - partly prediction by Nietzsche, partly th...@Asher - partly prediction by Nietzsche, partly the influence of Nietzsche. But people were smarter in those days, and it was so clear to them that you could not have Christian morality without Christian faith that they didn't see much need to argue it. We are now in the position of having abandoned the faith and inverting the morality - but somehow arguing that this has not really happened, and nothing has really changed and modern morality is merely a more perfect form of the traditional morality... Modern secular culture is Nietzschian, but unlike Nietzsche it denies the fact - the worst of both worlds! But then, Nietzsche's truthfulness was only a residue of his Christianity, and inevitably was also destroyed by the 'death of God'. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-58572977648603840382013-08-03T07:07:15.364+01:002013-08-03T07:07:15.364+01:00Nietzsche pointed this out almost 150 years ago an...Nietzsche pointed this out almost 150 years ago and, in fact, a very significant amount of his body of predictions have come true. He may have made some grave errors (or simply be misread or cryptic) but ya gotta give the man credit, when due.Ashernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10554145795639367322013-07-03T06:19:15.465+01:002013-07-03T06:19:15.465+01:00This is so obvious that it doesn't need to be ...This is so obvious that it doesn't need to be said. But a sign of decadent times is that the most obvious truths are considered absurd while the most obvious absurdities are accepted as self-evident truths.<br /><br />Thank you for sharingimnobodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66731304928031596482013-06-30T14:04:49.443+01:002013-06-30T14:04:49.443+01:00@JAD - I think the Chief Rabbi may be speaking to ...@JAD - I think the Chief Rabbi may be speaking to your condition. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-61014869073835586132013-06-30T14:04:03.161+01:002013-06-30T14:04:03.161+01:00ivvenalis has left a new comment on your post &quo...ivvenalis has left a new comment on your post "Losing Christian faith *entails* abandoning Christ...": <br /><br /> It's ironic (I know you think that it is purposive) that our current elite, for whom multiculturalism etc are so ostensibly important, have such a narrow worldview. The fact that knowledge of pre-Christian morality (Classical paganism) is now purely an antiquarian interest rather than a standard part of elite education could be made up for in theory by increased knowledge of contemporary non-Christian belief systems. But it isn't. Such knowledge is often shallow, rarely accompanied by even a passing familiarity with the original language, and carefully administered so as to prevent unfavorable comparisons to Western/Christian norms. <br /><br />Of course this maleducation is often cynically manipulated by foreign organizations with knowledge of it... [snip]Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-16500211658421669282013-06-30T11:24:36.265+01:002013-06-30T11:24:36.265+01:00I don't recall stammering.
Humans succeeded b...I don't recall stammering.<br /><br />Humans succeeded by working together, in large part by working together to kill other humans.<br /><br />Knowing right from wrong is essential to working together.James A. Donaldhttp://blog.jim.comnoreply@blogger.com