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I watched the video a week ago and am just not getting to post. My initial impression of both sides is that their views are not very well developed. Neither used anything very solid like studies or other data and examples to buttress their position.
To me HH's philosophy is very humanistic and a promotion of the beautiful people. Only a small percent of the population can live what his point of view is. Thus leaving the rest with feeling left out, disillusioned or even feeling rejected. That said I've been a libertarian for most of my Christian life and think the church didn't support people as well as they should have. Some churches have for example thought that condoms shouldn't be promoted as they would promote sexual immorality. But data shows there has always been a pretty large portion of youth that have premarital sex and if they followed the those churches teaching they could get pregnant and/or catch an STI. That I found to be a very unhumanistic teaching and undermined the churches teaching of compassion for people.
Buckley could have talked about how unethical sexual relationships could use the playboy philosophy in a way that would hurt many people bring in examples from STI, using people for sexual gratification and dripping them and unwanted pregnancy. He didn't seem to have much of a feel for the Judo Christian ethic of family and how to it was helping people. Mostly he just had a call to the Judo Christian tradition. Which I think has brought us a lot of benefit yet we in the west have challenged and changed since Martin Luther.
To me HH's philosophy is very humanistic and a promotion of the beautiful people. Only a small percent of the population can live what his point of view is. Thus leaving the rest with feeling left out, disillusioned or even feeling rejected. That said I've been a libertarian for most of my Christian life and think the church didn't support people as well as they should have. Some churches have for example thought that condoms shouldn't be promoted as they would promote sexual immorality. But data shows there has always been a pretty large portion of youth that have premarital sex and if they followed the those churches teaching they could get pregnant and/or catch an STI. That I found to be a very unhumanistic teaching and undermined the churches teaching of compassion for people.
Buckley could have talked about how unethical sexual relationships could use the playboy philosophy in a way that would hurt many people bring in examples from STI, using people for sexual gratification and dripping them and unwanted pregnancy. He didn't seem to have much of a feel for the Judo Christian ethic of family and how to it was helping people. Mostly he just had a call to the Judo Christian tradition. Which I think has brought us a lot of benefit yet we in the west have challenged and changed since Martin Luther.
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