Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
by _bxg1 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:41PM
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I mean, I would just translate to the secular equivalent, "perfection is not a real thing". More concerning is the "image of the Creator" language, which is a short step from exactly the kind of hyper-idealism that he's critiquing in the first place. He does at least acknowledge that trying to achieve perfection in the real (or "the present") world is folly, but still, it's from a very different perspective than the secular one.
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Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
by sadness2 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:10PM
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Sure, but it's a hyper-idealism which rejects the absolutely the idea of allowing a non-inclusive worldview of an individual to rule. Judeo-Christian is the author's specific worldview, but that's incidental to the stance.
Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
by _bxg1 on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @04:17PM
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In theory. I know plenty of Christians who would agree with his statements about this world being fallen, but who still try to move their country towards a Christian pseudo-utopia where their own values are mandated on others. Of course we can't know whether the author falls into that camp or not.
EDIT: To be clear, I also know plenty of Christians who do not try and impose their values on society.
Re:Dystopia Is What Results from the Attempt to Create Utopia
by PavlovsCat on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @08:27PM
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It's only theoretically possible that the author's specific worldview is incidental to their stance because there are people who have the same wordview but the opposite stance? That makes no sense.
> I also know plenty of Christians who do not try and impose their values on society.
Yeah, like the article for example, which raises the question why all this is floating at the top.