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Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 2:55 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2020 at 2:55 am by Foxaèr.)
Someone brought him up on Reddit, and I had to look him up because honestly I have never heard of the guy before.
I do not recall him ever being mentioned on this forum, either.
Therefore, what is your opinion of the man, what he believes and teaches?
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RE: Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 4:25 am
(This post was last modified: August 11, 2020 at 4:32 am by GrandizerII.)
He got the moves:
Cool guy basically.
Also have a look at this:
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RE: Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 6:29 am
(August 11, 2020 at 2:55 am)Eleven Wrote: Someone brought him up on Reddit, and I had to look him up because honestly I have never heard of the guy before.
I do not recall him ever being mentioned on this forum, either.
Therefore, what is your opinion of the man, what he believes and teaches?
I mentioned him recently on another thread. Someone was claiming that Christianity, for black Americans, is only enslavement, and I pointed out that there are some very smart black people who disagree with that.
West and Chris Hedges sometimes work together on politics, and I find them both very impressive. Moral and clear, and not deceived by fake-progressive promises.
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RE: Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 6:42 am
I think he’d be more influential if he could be more politic.
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RE: Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 12:36 pm
(August 11, 2020 at 2:55 am)Eleven Wrote: Someone brought him up on Reddit, and I had to look him up because honestly I have never heard of the guy before.
I do not recall him ever being mentioned on this forum, either.
Therefore, what is your opinion of the man, what he believes and teaches?
https://podcastnotes.org/joe-rogan-experience/west/
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RE: Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 4:57 pm
Neopragmatism is a heavy lift for me, though I think it has obvious merit as a descriptive theory of truth-making. Looks like there's alot of buzz about his unflattering but arguably true comments on the Obama presidency.
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RE: Cornel West
August 11, 2020 at 8:35 pm
Well, I think the same thing now that I know who he is as I did before I knew of his existence, which is, nothing.
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RE: Cornel West
August 12, 2020 at 6:53 am
I've seen him sometimes on Bill Maher and Democracy Now. I guess he is different than other clergy members because he tolerates gay people and calls them brothers and sisters, and he seems like a cool guy - so no wonder he is not as famous as his bigoted colleagues like Mitch Pacwa, Robert Jeffress, Pat Robertson, the Pope... because Christians love their preachers to be hateful.
And from what I remember in 2016, he was not for Trump nor Hillary but for something else.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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