(August 14, 2017 at 4:01 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(August 14, 2017 at 3:34 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Well, I was mostly referring to when you said this: "At the cultural level I believe that atheism is a corrosive and undermines the core values of Western civilization such as human dignity, civil rights, aesthetic hierarchies."
I see it as a blanket statement because there are a lot of atheists who are humanists and who value human life, believe in human rights, and do good things for their communities through charity and volunteering.
My statement was about atheism as an intellectual position and cultural phenomenon. It is critique of ideas and says nothing about the character of any individual atheist.
Ok. I guess I misunderstood.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
