Word: theistic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...statement that the situation in Cambodia is "the deadly logical consequence of an atheistic" system of values suggests that theistic value systems have never allowed or encouraged such atrocities. One need only cite the brutalities committed in the name of God, from the Inquisition to the "Kill a Commie for Christ" mentality, to demonstrate that intolerance, bigotry and cruelties of all kinds have been and continue to be more common to "religiously oriented" societies than to the few genuinely secular ones...
...paused then tried further to explain himself. "That's why it leads toward the non-theistic realization that there is no 'self'--that's why it's so mysterious," he said, exaggerating his voice, "it doesn't exist...
...from hate of a father who hobnobbed with J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill, was "operative" in his decision to become a socialist, Humanist, civil libertarian and world pacifist. True to form, just as throughout this compendium of essays Lamont attacks determinism in any name, shape and form (Christian theistic, Marxist economic, Skinnerian behaviorist, even shades he sights in Dewey's naturalistic), he dismisses Freudian psychology as the explanation for his very un-patrician life choices. Rather, Lamont places a premium on just such choices--life choice, free will, individual accountability. From there, he spins a personal philosophy of "naturalistic...
Unlike his Rockefeller counterpart, who metamorphosed unnoticeably from the strict Baptist faith of his grandfather to the tepid, gently-theistic civil religion so at home recently in the White House, Lamont turned into a shrill, at times evangelical Humanist. Not just a fly in the smooth ointment of his family's liberal Protestantism, but a gadfly among the "New Philosophers," correcting Dewey's semantics and grammar here, rescuing George Santayana from an ignominious Vatican tomb-marker there, always, always proselytizing for the American Humanist Association, the Ethical Union of America, and other similar religious-philosophical organizations...
...concludes Nash, "I endorse his ideal. Christians ought to be engaged in developing a view of life and the world as a whole, in showing the implications of Christian theism for every area of human knowledge. No one before him and few since him have developed any world view-theistic or secular-as complete as his." Of course, any philosopher who picks up Nash's challenge will have to deal with a world of knowledge much more complex than that of Thomas' day, a world that the Angelic Doctor himself would likely have confronted with nothing less than...