Challenges

Challenges was my first post on the new Law, Religion, and Ethics blog.  In that post, I posed some questions for both theists and secularists, concluding with:

Can and should theology and theologically informed philosophy provide a foundation for the rights, liberty, and equality we cherish (the inalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration) in our pluralistic society? Is Christian intolerance of difference a real concern? Is it any more of a concern that secularist intolerance of Christian belief? How do we achieve the right balance between communal needs – the common good – and individual freedom to diverge from communal norms? Is the right balance more likely to be achieved in a secularist state where religion is privatized and marginalized or in a theistically informed secular state where the ultimate questions are welcomed and robustly debated in the public square?

 

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