Conscience and the Moral Argument as Evidence for the Goodness of God.

[Deesse23]

Yes, it has. I guess, you've never read, "Who really cares: the Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism" by Prof. Arthur Brooks?
The book uses data from many sources to prove that the one overwhelming predictor of generosity is religion.

Are you a suddenly a utilitarian now? The truth of your god proposition is not tied in any way to the generosity of its followers. Do i really need to point that out?

Arthur Brooks: A conservative coming to the conclusion that conservatives have more empathy than liberals? How unsurprising.

What do you think of this criticism of his? https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/b...servatism/
Thoughts?

When defending conservative policy views against liberal criticisms, Brooks relies on arguments so broad that they could only work as responses to the crudest straw men

Brooks’s feel-good gobbledygook is of a piece with his paeans to free enterprise: They’re both better suited for motivational posters than a serious political program. His perpetual presence in the Post and the Times is evidence not of his intellectual heft, but of a desperation for conservatism that, if nothing else, at least sounds smarter and doesn’t come across as heartless. Any illusions about the intellectual heft of Brooks’s AEI should have been dispelled by its purging of David Frum for his mild Obamacare apostasy.