Chris Arnade: belief

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…How has that operated? Part of it was utilitarian. This works for so many people, [laughs] but also, it’s a little deeper than that, which is an understanding that people are a little bit more complicated than science leads you to belief, and life is a little more complicated. In that sense, there is something to what I would call common-sense folk wisdom. That’s just more than something that needs to be explained away with science or eventually, we’ll move beyond. I do think there are very human qualities that are . . . I am not a relativist. I might’ve been 30 years ago — belief in cultural relativism. I’m not a relativist. I think there are some cultures that are just better than others. [laughs] I agree with that.…

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