tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post3080556946971419852..comments2023-09-07T04:24:11.648-06:00Comments on y-intercept blog: The Gloucester Mythy-intercepthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-7742086351096750202008-06-24T21:20:00.000-06:002008-06-24T21:20:00.000-06:00You may have noticed that I am on a kick about cla...You may have noticed that I am on a kick about classical vs. modern thinking. Hayek is a modern thinker. He is trying to come up with a scientific sounding explanation for the way traditional christian society behaved.<BR/><BR/>I think Christians would do better by arguing for the rational foundations of marriage. That is, the sanctity of marriage comes from the demand that people make a rational, concious moral choice concerning those acts that bring children to the world.<BR/><BR/>The description you gave that the stigma is the result of millennia of experience boils down to a description that Christianity is just a vain superstition.<BR/><BR/>I think the more correct view is that the tradition arose through reason. The early Christains saw the infantcide, abandonned children and gross depravity of the Romans; The Christains developed the Greek path and demanded a rational commitment before engaging in child production.y-intercepthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389285761013186443noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5090403.post-70225087452563482082008-06-24T16:48:00.000-06:002008-06-24T16:48:00.000-06:00Economist Friedrich Hayek argued that the stigma o...Economist Friedrich Hayek argued that the stigma of out-of-wedlock birth stemmed from millennia of experience of what type of social construct actually produced the best outcomes. While an agnostic, he argued that our headlong rush to scrap traditional strictures in the name of social justice is the height of arrogance.Scott Hinrichshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831447472339880148noreply@blogger.com