06 December 2010

The political impulse

Secular humanists pride themselves in their embrace of science as the basis for belief. They believe a rational order leads to the most advanced civilization. They view the market, which harnesses and reflects the rational, as objective the way scientific method is objective. 
Secular humanists elevate prudence to the highest virtue as they pretend to dedicate themselves to an unflagging pursuit of truth. So the culture of secular humanism is a culture that tries to conceal its own political foundation. 
  • Where is the political impulse in the religious ideologies? 
  • How does the involving of God in the social order affect the ideological thrust of those value systems that include Him? 
  • How is it that religions are really ideological; and, more pertinent to our project, 
  • What is the political story that would propel the biblical regime as an ideology? 

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