I'm a Christian, I'd Rather Love My Neighbour, I Don't Study Politics.

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i think that so much of what passes as public christianity owes more to nature than it does to christ. Even within a given denomination, r the church that that i attend, i don't feel an obligation to agree with what is being said. And james's depressing diagnosis seems to be largely correct. I can't tell if it's a blip in the long moral arc, you know, just he baby of ten, 20 year dip in the rise of authoritarianism and populaism or if it's a long term trend that we should be concerned about.

In their book Science and the Good, professional philosophers James Hunter and Paul Nedelisky trace the origins and development of the centuries-long, passionate, but ultimately failed quest to discover a scientific foundation for morality. The conversation takes a decidedly interesting turn when Drs. Hunter and Nedelisky reveal that they are both theists and that their Christian worldview informs their thinking on moral issues. The three then dig into the weeds of the difference between religious and secular moral systems, the nature of God and morality, why a purely naturalistic approach to morality does not negate religion or even the existence of God (natural law could be God’s way of creating moral values), natural rights and rights theory, consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics, progress in philosophy, why philosophers never seem to reach consensus on important subjects like morality, how to think about issues like abortion, why they believe in God and follow the Christian religion and yet reject Divine Command Theory, and much more.