10-15-2022, 03:53 PM
(09-07-2022, 09:40 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: It is hard to imagine the Millennial generation reverting to the idea that whatever happens in life is some Will of God. We have no shortage of examples of horrors from the Mongol horrors to the mistreatment of American First Peoples to the Atlantic slave trade to the Holocaust that if such things be the Will of God, then perhaps we would be better off without such a God. I would not worship a tyrant or gangster except under the prospect of such extreme distress as a red-hot poker directed at my rectum. I do not want either a Stalin or a mobster as an equivalent of a God, and I do not want my God to be a Stalin or a mobster.
This is true of me even as a lifelong right wing Christian. The Civic tendency to be more outer-world driven is strong in me, and many of my friends have referred to me as a "philosopher who admires Christian values" more so than an actual believer (I'm never sure whether to take this as a compliment or a criticism. Most likely it's a little bit of both). When I was younger, religion wasn't something I thought much about, but as I grow older, I see more and more the sense of pragmatism that old fashioned Christian values can have, both on an individual level and a more communal level. It's a topic I regularly bring up, but I rarely bring up particularly moralistic points, and almost never anything "spiritual". Christianity to me is useful largely as a set of practical principles for living a good, balanced life or running a functional society.
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