{"id":5643,"date":"2017-03-31T03:05:49","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/31\/on-the-misuse-of-theology\/"},"modified":"2017-03-31T03:05:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T03:05:49","slug":"on-the-misuse-of-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/03\/31\/on-the-misuse-of-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Misuse of ‘Theology’"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an addendum to my  post, On the Misuse of Religious Language<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the left-wing rag of record, the NYT, we find<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen you buy gold you\u2019re saying nothing is going to work and everything is going to stay ridiculous,\u201d said Mackin Pulsifer, vice chairman and chief investment officer of Fiduciary Trust International in New York. \u201cThere is a fair cohort who believes this in a theological sense, but I believe it\u2019s unreasonable given the history of the United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So to believe something 'in a theological sense' is to believe it unreasonably.  It follows that liberals have plenty of 'theological' beliefs.  In the 'theology' of a liberal, theology can be dismissed unread as irrational.<\/span><\/p>\n

And then there is the misuse of 'metaphysics.' I'll save that rant for later.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brevity is the soul of blog.<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is an addendum to my  post, On the Misuse of Religious Language. In the left-wing rag of record, the NYT, we find: \u201cWhen you buy gold you\u2019re saying nothing is going to work and everything is going to stay ridiculous,\u201d said Mackin Pulsifer, vice chairman and chief investment officer of Fiduciary Trust International in … Continue reading “On the Misuse of ‘Theology’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}