I think in that conversation you just happened to pick out the right set of issues that are most politically controversial over the last fifty years in the West. Outside of that context, there may be a million things that a person will do or think because of their faith, but they don't necessarily lead to headbutts with you.
I think a lot of the time you could translate the ideas of the people you have those conversations with into a set of fully secular moral and epistemological axioms, but in doing so you have to admit that they are axioms through and through, and faith is about as logical a coathook to fix them on as anything else.
I think in that conversation you just happened to pick out the right set of issues that are most politically controversial over the last fifty years in the West. Outside of that context, there may be a million things that a person will do or think because of their faith, but they don’t necessarily lead to headbutts with you.
Most younger people who say they are religious don't really do anything different from anyone else. I live in a country where supposedly 90% are christians and only 4% are atheists. Most don't really do or think anything different, they just have it in the back of their mind that they're christian or whatever, and they may light a candle in a church if they happen to be inside one.
I think in that conversation you just happened to pick out the right set of issues that are most politically controversial over the last fifty years in the West. Outside of that context, there may be a million things that a person will do or think because of their faith, but they don't necessarily lead to headbutts with you.
I think a lot of the time you could translate the ideas of the people you have those conversations with into a set of fully secular moral and epistemological axioms, but in doing so you have to admit that they are axioms through and through, and faith is about as logical a coathook to fix them on as anything else.
Most younger people who say they are religious don't really do anything different from anyone else. I live in a country where supposedly 90% are christians and only 4% are atheists. Most don't really do or think anything different, they just have it in the back of their mind that they're christian or whatever, and they may light a candle in a church if they happen to be inside one.
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