tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post2991565831767610493..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Edward Norman on Secularity (and what Christianity is not)Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-55786564559936361402010-10-06T06:52:19.588+01:002010-10-06T06:52:19.588+01:00Edward Norman: "Modern people have actually s...Edward Norman: "Modern people have actually shown that they can get on very well without religion."<br /><br />- Couldn't care less, Edward. Even if there would be ten billion atheists and only 100 Finnish Christians, I would happily belong to those hundred. I can offer Christianity, but if it is rejected, I go on without blinking an eye.<br /><br />"... interior disposition in each person to need a religious sentiment." (Edward is rejecting this)<br /><br />- Atheistically oriented evolutionary psychologists have done their best to show that there is such a disposition; attribution of agency to various objects; death, and religion as problem solving; spontaneous belief in God in children, God not being mere projection from the image of parents; genetic components in the religious dispositions (about 50% of the variations); etc. These in itself can't tell anything about the existence of God (scientifically), just that we have those dispositions and they guide us towards God, more or less imperfectly, which in the case of humans can't be avoided.<br /><br />When genuine Ghristianity is diminishing, heresies, superstitions, pseudo-religions, substitute "religions" (science, liberalism, communism etc.), reactionary dead religions, etc. increase.<br /><br />"Christianity, as it really is, needs ... to be taught to each person and to each generation ..."<br /><br />- Yes, that is a part of Christianity being the living word. In this world good things mostly require work and effort, unlike in Marxist fairy tale utopias.<br /><br />"Christianity is in the market place of competing ideas"<br /><br />-Perhaps, but it is not dependent on selling Christianity.a Finnnoreply@blogger.com