Reply #54: If Atheism is the Answer, so is Theism. If Diversity is the answer, [View All]

[Leopolds Ghost]

so is Coommonality. Just because something is "the answer" for you doesn't mean that you can say "anyone who believes in absolutes should be corrected; that is the only absolute."

That is the sort of anti-absolutism that is common not just in secular postmodernists, but postmodern thinkers in general. It is a misinterpretation of postmodern theory on which most contemporary liberal political science is based (see: Postmodernism, or: the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism.)

Dismissing anyone who believes in absolutes, and dismissing arguments grounded in absolutes in general, has the effect of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Occam's Razor dictates that the simplest explanation is usually the best one. The simplest explanation for the ethical system on which "social justice" is based is that they are grounded in a worldview which provides for absolutes (usually but not always theist; in any case, traditional liberal humanism, such as Deism, inherently allows for the possibility of theism because both traditions value absolutes.) That, not a crusading endeavor to promote the notion that nobody's beliefs apply to others, is the belief system on which our country's laws were written, like it or not.

The notion of the government being inherently secular does not come from "the government shall make no laws respecting the establishment of any particular religion". It comes from a crusading postmodernism, or worse, a crusading modernism (that academically discredited philosphical notion on which the technocrats are still running our country.) The crusading postmodernism, secular by definition, is rooted in the creative and professional classes which seek to supplant Republicans as the dominant Overclass (per Michael Lind.)

Thus leading to two parties of the Overclass as we have seen with the DLC (who are just as secular as anyone else in the American upper class, but seek to exploit religious belief the way the neocons, who are atheist to a man, do -- thus leading to the most common, and irrelevant, criticism of the DLC on these boards, e.g. that they are not secular enough.)