(July 29, 2020 at 5:17 am)Belacqua Wrote:(July 28, 2020 at 11:03 am)Greatest I am Wrote: Where did you see me promote tribalism?
Christians are a huge and diverse group of people. They believe a large range of things. Many of them don't believe anything like the things you are ascribing to them.
You promote tribalism by reducing the wide range of Christians to an artificially narrow group, based on the cherry-picked beliefs of some of them. Then by announcing that they are wrong and you are right, you divide the world into tribes. The Christian tribe (bad) and your tribe (good).
Every human being is born into a particular time, place, and social group. Everyone's values and beliefs are contingent on that group. To some extent we can grow beyond the tribe we are born in to, but not entirely. Your time and place and social group have determined what your beliefs and values are.
The most dangerous tribal members are the ones who deny that their beliefs and values are contingent on their time, place, and social group. People who say that they are not members of tribes, because their own beliefs and values are not contingent but are JUST TRUE are showing they are unaware of their own contingencies.
If you really want the world to do away with tribes by working toward some kind of world-wide government or belief system which homogenizes all thought, it just means that you want everyone everywhere to be a member of your own tribe.
So I am both promoting tribalism and denouncing it.
Thanks for your reply.
Regards
DL
