Christian Libertarians and Atheists - Common Ground?
May 5, 2019 at 12:22 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2019 at 4:27 am by Losty.)
For the 500th anniversary of the start of the Reformation (October 2017) I pulled together 95 ideas about how current christianity and our society may need reforms today. In doing that, a major theme seemed to emerge that substitutes for truth and reason are used for social and religious groups to be more successful.
While atheists obviously disagree with christians on many points, is there significant common ground between intellectual atheists and intellectual christian libertarians in that both want a return to focus on truth and intellectual freedom rather than marketing and social control?
For example, here are some propositions that I think we may generally agree on:
7. The use of fallacies in marketing can be more effective than the use of logical arguments, but there is only one valid way to choose beliefs: choose the set of beliefs that are most probably true.
46. Deductive logic requires inductive logic to support its premises. “Faith” is treating something that is probably true as if it is definitely true. Inductive logic is probabilistic and so requires faith. (that is different than the common religious definition of blind "faith").
While atheists obviously disagree with christians on many points, is there significant common ground between intellectual atheists and intellectual christian libertarians in that both want a return to focus on truth and intellectual freedom rather than marketing and social control?
For example, here are some propositions that I think we may generally agree on:
7. The use of fallacies in marketing can be more effective than the use of logical arguments, but there is only one valid way to choose beliefs: choose the set of beliefs that are most probably true.
46. Deductive logic requires inductive logic to support its premises. “Faith” is treating something that is probably true as if it is definitely true. Inductive logic is probabilistic and so requires faith. (that is different than the common religious definition of blind "faith").
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