Re:The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control (2020)
by xabotage on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:57AM
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Faith is belief without evidence or belief in the presence of contradicting evidence - people don't "reason their way" into faith, they rationalize. C.S. Lewis is popular because he uses humanist principles to spin a fundamentally authoritarian, controlling religion into something easier for the modern mindset to rationalize. The GP's perspective is extremely accurate - child indoctrination is religion's primary mechanism to maintain it's power and control.
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Re:The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control (2020)
by Alenycus on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @08:52AM
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To be blunt, you either haven't read cs Lewis or are being intentionally deceitful. Cs Lewis's arguments are explicitly anti-humanist.
Dostoesvsky and lewis changed my life and brought my from a mild agnosticism to traditional Catholicism and my life has never been better.
Re:The BITE Model of Authoritarian Control (2020)
by xabotage on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @07:09PM
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Of course Lewis isn't explicitly humanist - Humanism is a "worldly" movement, and we can't let the "evil", "fallen" world take credit for anything good. I would be more inclined to buy Lewis' depiction of the Christian god if it didn't clash with all of Christian history up until, serendipitously, humanistic principles gained traction.
Testimonials are not evidence.