Laying Waste To The Religious Right

A few brief thoughts for perspective:

“Censorious scrupulosity” – Stephen Toulmin is as witty as he is brilliant.

Make it viral (so to speak… Yikes, we will soon have to be censoriously scrupulous in avoiding that phrase, now that the global police state is here):

“Is that a touch of censorious scrupulosity I’m sensing? How about a little loving kindness and charity there, brother.”

“Dogmatic appeals to “tradition” are, in Biblical terms, the teachings of the Pharisees more than those of Jesus.”

   – Stephen Toulmin

“The moral world has other dimensions beside the Cold War; charity and loving kindness stand higher on a scale of Christian values than censorious scrupulosity.”

   – Stephen Toulmin, Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity

In one line, Stephen Toulmin undercuts the whole of the evangelical and fundamentalist movement, as well as the new Cold War, and the religious right, laying waste to their foundations. Well done!

(Note: Jesus was not a fundamentalist – I guarantee you that.)

JTR,

April 6, 2020