Secular Challenges
Poet who warned against "worship at the shrine of brain."
Who is Ella Wheeler Wilcox?
Marxist revolutionary doctor who used any means for "good" ends.
Who is Ernesto "Che" Guevara?
He claims the ego loves to "make wrong in order to be right."
Who is Eckhart Tolle?
Psychiatrist who sees ethical boundaries as "self-aggrandizement.
Who is Adam Phillips?
Philosopher who said free will "revolutionized the history of thought."
Who is Luc Ferry?
He defined morality as "an experimental art" of living together.
Who is Herbert W. Schneider?
He argued ethics is only as good as what it can accomplish.
Who is Howard Selsam?
New Age writer who claimed "Christ is the same force as Lucifer."
Who is David Spangler?
The place where Lyotard says moral truth exclusively resides.
What is the local community?
Philosopher who calls the Judeo-Christian ethic "incomparable."
Who is Jürgen Habermas?
Secularist who said objective standards are needed to avoid mistakes.
Who is Austin Dacey?
Leaders who used military garb and "rehearsed grievances" for energy.
Who are Fidel Castro, Mao, Stalin, or Kim Jong Un?
She wrote that everything was perfect until humans began to judge.
Who is Marianne Williamson?
Rorty admits this is absent when debating views with Nazis.
What is a neutral, common ground?
Concept that the modern "self" has clear boundaries from others.
What is the "buffered self"?
Historian who wrongly believed intelligence would ensure morality.
Who is Harry Elmer Barnes?
Theorist who claimed capitalist acts are immoral by definition
Who is G. L. Andreyev?
She argued that autonomous people must internalize their values.
Who is Marilyn Ferguson?
The evolution of community narratives changed this act from horror to necessary.
What is abortion?
Reformer who required absolute grounds to abolish the slave trade.
Who is William Wilberforce?
Historian who noted Darwinism gave a "death-blow" to fixed codes
Who is Richard Weikart?
The two "building blocks" Marxists use to abandon moral standards.
What are evolution and the dialectic?
She claimed setting limits on "sexual energy" makes it distorted.
Who is Shakti Gawain?
These standards evolve according to the "dictates of the group."
What are moral standards?
The man whose final standard is exclusive allegiance to God.
Who is the "responsible man" (as defined by Dietrich Bonhoeffer)?