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...Ward, a high official of the United Methodist Church. "He must first make sure if he is right. If he is, then he must be willing to give up his job to raise the question-to the highest authorities within the company and if necessary to the public. The Judeo-Christian tradition dictates that a man's highest authority is God." Rabbi Balfour Brickner, a director of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, cites the Old Testament to justify whistle blowing: "Thou shalt not stand idly by the blood of thy neighbor (Leviticus...
...addition, in the western world, there is "a disgusting farrago of Judeo-Christian religiosity, scientistic progressism, belief in the 'natural' rights of man, and utilitarian pragmatism." All these notions are unacceptable in the light of Monod's revelations. There can be no reliance on an "animist" concept of a covenant between man and nature...
...signal from another planet is ever received and deciphered, it would surely have an immeasurable impact on man. In one brief burst of information it would expand his horizons into infinity. In the process it would force him to re-examine some ancient questions. With his long heritage of Judeo-Christian culture, could Western man still be certain of his superior status in a God-created universe? Orthodox Christian theologians admit no doubts. There is, they insist, only one sovereign Lord of all creation, and he created man in his image. C.S. Lewis, prolific Protestant author and theologian...
Unfortunately, another result of Freire's Western. Judeo-Christian orientation is his dichotomizing of man from his world, his view of the natural world as a set of resources to be ruled over and manipulated by man for his enjoyment and satisfaction. Behaviorists as well as ecologists point out the danger of viewing the biosphere as a passive resource: in order to assure his survival, man must come to the realization that his life is governed by the same natural laws as all other events in the universe. Freire senses the oneness a peasant feels with the land that gives...
...ultimate logical dilemma in Skinner's thinking is this: What are the sources of the standards of good and evil in his ideal society? Indeed, who decides even what constitutes pleasure or pain, reward or punishment, when man and his environment can be limitlessly manipulated? Skinner himself believes in Judeo-Christian ethics combined with the scientific tradition. But he fails to answer how it is possible to accept those ethics without also accepting something like the "inner person" with an autonomous conscience...