I was having a chat with a colleague recently, reflecting upon the moral sensibilities of our college students. Specifically, we dissected what we felt to be an incoherence in the moral sensibilities of post-Christian culture that our students have internalized.
I'm not sure it's incoherent. I think there is a right and wrong. Justice is right. Injustice is wrong. As long as people and their words and deeds aren't unjust or advocate or perpetuate injustice, they should be tolerated.
There are certainly different ideas of justice, e.g., how to weigh the rights of a fetus angainst the rights of its mother.
But I think "justice", however defined, is what determines right or wrong
Excellent! Your description of post-Christian morality reminds me of the French Revolution where everyone proclaimed "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" until some people who were more equal than you ordered you to visit "Madame Guillotine."
Tolerance for me, but not for thee.
Or as Orwell put another way, “We are all equal, but some are more equal than others.”
You have put into words what I have been feeling about the state of Christianity in America for a long time but was unable to articulate. Thank you.
I'm not sure it's incoherent. I think there is a right and wrong. Justice is right. Injustice is wrong. As long as people and their words and deeds aren't unjust or advocate or perpetuate injustice, they should be tolerated.
There are certainly different ideas of justice, e.g., how to weigh the rights of a fetus angainst the rights of its mother.
But I think "justice", however defined, is what determines right or wrong
Excellent! Your description of post-Christian morality reminds me of the French Revolution where everyone proclaimed "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" until some people who were more equal than you ordered you to visit "Madame Guillotine."