Modern science argued descriptively because it was rationalistic. As a rationalistic system, it argued from data and only from data to which it was predisposed. Modern science could describe to you the color green, but it could not tell you why hunter green was to be preferred to olive green in a particular situation. This is one way science divorced itself from the classical discussion of morality.
Similarly, Modern science could describe to you the differences in skin melanin, say, between Whites and Blacks, but it could not tell you why a White was to be preferred to a Black—though it did. And that was a characteristic problem with both the Modern Christian and Modern non-Christian.
Modern science defined itself too narrowly to discuss information morally, because it only deals with matter. Matter is its final reality. Modern science, having no authority save the “fact,” did not have a self-consciously moral context for making moral determinations about facts even though facts were moral determinations in the first place (for they are either “right” or “wrong”). Modern science discussed facts divorced from their moral context. That resulted in science exploiting whatever it discussed. Why? Because it was only descriptive.
The Modern, atheistic world-view uniquely bred amongst the religous and non-religious the concept of segregation based upon race. Modern racism emphasized the superficially visual and behavioral (aka, scientific) aspects of people groups so that it believed, for example, that “Black” and “White” people were genetically programmed to idiocy or brilliance, immorality or high culture, superstition or intellectualism, respectively. It did not take into consideration moral aspects like religious belief or ethnic (world-view) history.
It interests me that the same POMO who rejects Modern racist culture, is affected by Modernism all the same in a very underhanded sense. For not only does the POMO accept people of different races as his close associates because of his extreme tolerance, but he foremost embraces the superficially behavioral aspects of those races. So not only will the POMO youth have a best friend who is Japanese, and not only will he develop a taste for Sushi and the martial arts, but he will also seriously consider the commercialized virtues of Zen via Yoga meditation techniques and reincarnation via the recycling culture.
Similarly, Modern science could describe to you the differences in skin melanin, say, between Whites and Blacks, but it could not tell you why a White was to be preferred to a Black—though it did. And that was a characteristic problem with both the Modern Christian and Modern non-Christian.
Modern science defined itself too narrowly to discuss information morally, because it only deals with matter. Matter is its final reality. Modern science, having no authority save the “fact,” did not have a self-consciously moral context for making moral determinations about facts even though facts were moral determinations in the first place (for they are either “right” or “wrong”). Modern science discussed facts divorced from their moral context. That resulted in science exploiting whatever it discussed. Why? Because it was only descriptive.
The Modern, atheistic world-view uniquely bred amongst the religous and non-religious the concept of segregation based upon race. Modern racism emphasized the superficially visual and behavioral (aka, scientific) aspects of people groups so that it believed, for example, that “Black” and “White” people were genetically programmed to idiocy or brilliance, immorality or high culture, superstition or intellectualism, respectively. It did not take into consideration moral aspects like religious belief or ethnic (world-view) history.
It interests me that the same POMO who rejects Modern racist culture, is affected by Modernism all the same in a very underhanded sense. For not only does the POMO accept people of different races as his close associates because of his extreme tolerance, but he foremost embraces the superficially behavioral aspects of those races. So not only will the POMO youth have a best friend who is Japanese, and not only will he develop a taste for Sushi and the martial arts, but he will also seriously consider the commercialized virtues of Zen via Yoga meditation techniques and reincarnation via the recycling culture.
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