Saturday, March 11, 2006

Philip Blond and Adrian Pabst argue that relativism is the cause of fundamentalism and that together they give Bush and Blair moral authority, causing the war in Iraq:

Once all things are equally valid, the only way to attain supremacy is through war and power. Thus does liberalism make fundamentalists out of us all.


On the other hand, Robert Jensen offers a sort of confessions of a Christian atheist in which he claims that the more relativism we have in religion, the better

The task of Christians -- and, I would argue, all religions -- is to make themselves more relevant in the short term by being a site of such political and moral engagement, with the goal of ensuring their ultimate irrelevance.

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