Medieval Civilization: Millennia in Microcosm Week 174

Kenneth Smith argues that Christianized culture systematically deprives people of the very concepts needed to recognize how deeply it shapes and biases their thinking, producing both uncritical believers and reflexive anti-religious reactions as forms of ideological conditioning. He contends that true autonomous, critical, and value-literate individuals are extraordinarily rare because Christendom functions as a conformist political system that suppresses genuine reasoning about life’s most important moral and existential questions.

E. Faith Understood as a Vice

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