(September 17, 2018 at 4:11 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(September 16, 2018 at 8:05 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Mine: It's anti-intellectual. -- It discourages and disparages intellectual curiosity.
Personally, I do not think that is even remotely fair or accurate. I think you're painting with far too broad of a brush.
While it is true that a narrow strain of self-promoting American evangelicals seem to encourage willful ignorance, the whole Christian tradition is filled with prominent scholars, scientists, and thinkers. The influence of Christian intellectuals extends from the early Church Fathers to the founders of the scientific revolution like Pascal, Liebnitz, Francis Bacon and even Swedenborg. Then there are notable Christians like John Ruskin, Milton, Gladstone, and Bonhoeffer. David Bentley Hart is one of my favorite contemporary theologians and I don't think anyone could seriously call him anti-intellectual.
You may also note, that a number of those lived during the “dark ages”. Which seems to be another bogus reason I’m seeing a lot.
It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man. - Alexander Vilenkin
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther
