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12 Jul 2023 Conversations with Tyler David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought
“I think, in America, but also in the West as such — just to a pathological degree in America, on both right and left — we’ve learned to start all of our conversations from a position of moral absolutism.”
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- David Bentley Hart
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- 12 Jul 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…In the United States, has progressive politics become the new version of a secular Christianity? Well, I don’t know. In some cases yes, in some cases not. It depends on what you’re talking about in particular. I think, in America, but also in the West as such — just to a pathological degree in America, on both right and left — we’ve learned to start all of our conversations from a position of moral absolutism. I don’t know if this has always been the case. There have been apocalyptic moments in American history before. We had a Civil War, for instance. But at the present, it seems like both extremes speak in such strident tones of moral indignation that it is tempting to think that they’re speaking out of a dogmatic impulse rather than a rational one, that there is a religious intonation, in the worst sense, in our politics on all sides. Is the future of Christianity, as an institution, brighter or darker than it was, say, 20 years ago?…
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