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261 - Fr. Stephen De Young - The Son Of Man

The Symbolic World

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Is There a Blind Spot in the New Atheist Thinking?

There's so many blind spots in the new atheist thinking, you know, just in terms of the way in which they get to their value system or the way they pretend like they don't have hierarchies. As soon as they blink, they're back into these hierarchies, their own hierarchies, it's actually astounding to watch. There's something else interesting because as people are studying now the question of consciousness and of agency and all of these issues are becoming coming to the fore. And so humans become this extremely particular thing in the entire universe that they can perceive this like wonderfully completely anomalous thing out of which all meaning is coalescing towards.

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