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Bold type is a clear statement of the central problem with public discourse in the US lately.I reject those classifications and see them as an expression of intellectual snobbery and pretentiousness. The essential problem is the attempts to classify the human soul as a thing to be studied as a purely natural object when in fact it is super-natural; the whole reason we are not mere beasts.
Speaking of being human and fallible is an effort to excuse mistakes, error, sin, etc. When we are talking about what is true, it is important NOT to make the mistakes. It means not just being “human”, but being wrong to do so. So it is truer to say “The rest of humanity likes something a little more in error”, which is true; we are masters of self-deception, and don’t like hearing truth which displeases us.
The essential failing of these modern philosophies, whatever they call themselves, is that they reject certainty of truth in their theories. The goal is to allow the holder of the bogus “philosophy” to reject any truth that convicts him of wrong, error, or sin.
The line the Christian is supposed to hold is that certainty of the Truth founded upon faith, in the face of doubt; feeling doubt, to still choose to believe in spite of the temptation and the odds.
The last ten seconds in particular.
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