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NeoCarolean's avatar

I agree on your analysis of our modern way of thinking and of its over-reliance on rationality, but I am struggling with fully understanding your solution. To me it sounds like a version of "touch grass", or rather, "touch God", through rituals and rites. Have I understood it correctly?

Another confusion for me is your critic of sola scriptura. First you argue that enlightment thinking severed the bounds of metaphysical reality, but in so doing just became an echo of fashion. But is not sola scriptura one of these bounds that prevents us from becoming just another echo of fashion? The scriptures certainly is not fashionable today. I understand the critic of "endless interpretations" of the scriptures, but unless taste is tested through the lens of the scriptures, how can we tell apart bad taste from good taste?

Very protestant way of thinking, I know, but I feel that over-emphesising on rites at the expense of all rationality would throw out the baby with the bathwater. God is a rational God, as proven by the very existence of math and the natural world. Kant was wrong that you cannot prove God rationally. Rationality is integral to Christianity. Im feeling Im missing something from your perspective (or perhaps Im too drenched in protestant thinking).

Can I suggest you do a substack on the proper role of rationality at some point? I think that might clear things up, at least for me

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Bacon Commander's avatar

Damn son. You crank out bangers faster than i can do hot takes!

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