Truth Matters

[arisbe]

"Disgusted by the right's lust for absolutes, many of us retreated from talk of objective truth and embraced the philosopher Richard Rorty's call for an "ironic" stance toward our own liberal sympathies. We stopped caring about whether we were "right" and thought more about what makes the world go round. That made us feel at once more hip and less naïve.

"The events of the last three years have put the lie to that strategy." -- Philosopher Michael Lynch

Comments

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Thank you for pointing me to a superb article.

Fr. Men

[mizannie.livejournal.com]

When I read him I get the message that Christianity is emerging. Fr. Men talks of the birth pains that go with this but perhaps our incarnation is not even in its infancy but still in the birthing process, coming into the world. The timeline in the Museum of Natural History shows that in comparison to all that has gone before, humans are a tiny sliver of that time, so Christianity as a religion must be the width of a hair, or less?