Yes, and another term for that religion is physicalism or, in a philosophical context, materialism: The claim that only matter is real.
The crucial empirical premise [of physicalism] is the completeness of physics, by which I mean that all physical effects are due to physical causes. And the argument is then simply that, if all physical effects are due to physical causes, then anything that has a physical effect must itself be physical.
David Papineau, "The Rise of Physicalism" an essay in The Proper Ambition of Science (2000) and Physicalism and its Discontents (2001)
"Materialism is the view that there is only one kind of substance, which is matter. In recent years, materialism has been supplanted by ‘physicalism’... we could define physicalism as the view that everything that exists is physical, or depends upon something that is physical..."
Michael Lacewing, "Non-reductive Physicalism and Supervenience"
"The first thing to say when considering the truth of physicalism is that we live in an overwhelmingly physicalist or materialist intellectual culture."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2001)
Leftists don't say out loud physicalism is the truth and the only truth. But that's what they all agree on. You can't be in the club of academia unless you swear to that. Even most clergymen in the mainstream religions believe it. They have to.
Other names for the scientist religion, as a belief system, are humanism, as well as wokeism, Marxism, and leftism.
Long ago, a case was brought before the US Supreme Court charging that humanism is a religion. The Supreme Court ruled that it is not a religion. Probably because if that they had ruled that it was a religion, they would have had to admit that it was the established religion of the government of the United States, and therefore unconstitutional.
Speaking of a brave new world that is exactly what Donald Trump is proposing and one of the major vehicles for instigating this is of course this outfit http://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board It has a 900 page manifesto describing what it intends to do. It has the backing of at least 100 right-wing Christian groups which are listed on the above webpage
Yes, and another term for that religion is physicalism or, in a philosophical context, materialism: The claim that only matter is real.
The crucial empirical premise [of physicalism] is the completeness of physics, by which I mean that all physical effects are due to physical causes. And the argument is then simply that, if all physical effects are due to physical causes, then anything that has a physical effect must itself be physical.
David Papineau, "The Rise of Physicalism" an essay in The Proper Ambition of Science (2000) and Physicalism and its Discontents (2001)
"Materialism is the view that there is only one kind of substance, which is matter. In recent years, materialism has been supplanted by ‘physicalism’... we could define physicalism as the view that everything that exists is physical, or depends upon something that is physical..."
Michael Lacewing, "Non-reductive Physicalism and Supervenience"
"The first thing to say when considering the truth of physicalism is that we live in an overwhelmingly physicalist or materialist intellectual culture."
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2001)
Leftists don't say out loud physicalism is the truth and the only truth. But that's what they all agree on. You can't be in the club of academia unless you swear to that. Even most clergymen in the mainstream religions believe it. They have to.
Other names for the scientist religion, as a belief system, are humanism, as well as wokeism, Marxism, and leftism.
Long ago, a case was brought before the US Supreme Court charging that humanism is a religion. The Supreme Court ruled that it is not a religion. Probably because if that they had ruled that it was a religion, they would have had to admit that it was the established religion of the government of the United States, and therefore unconstitutional.
Great comment.
A great article and worthy of instruction to perceive the limitations of materialism. I’ll pass this one on to my (20y/o) daughter.
Thanks
Speaking of a brave new world that is exactly what Donald Trump is proposing and one of the major vehicles for instigating this is of course this outfit http://www.project2025.org/about/advisory-board It has a 900 page manifesto describing what it intends to do. It has the backing of at least 100 right-wing Christian groups which are listed on the above webpage
Excellent thinking, David. I wholly agree.
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