Philocrites“So great has been the tension between the general and the specialized forms of liberalism that some people have rightly asserted that the strategies of progressive liberalism are in fact the opposite of laissez-faire liberalism.”
A round-up of news stories about how Unitarian Universalist congregations are responding during the first week of combat.
When antiwar protesters start to get on the nerves of a “Mother Jones” editor, some leaders of the protest movement would be wise to listen up.
“My argument with the anti-war demonstrators hangs on the relative justice of two possible endings: an American victory or anything short of that, which Saddam could call a victory for himself.”
“Just wars are also ugly wars. Fancy wars are also ugly wars.”
“Reliance on frames and paradigms and whatnot is not some kind of failure to be sufficiently open-minded, it’s a precondition of any sort of attempt to understand the world.”
“Maybe we need another name for people with no particular objection to war itself, who refuse to take part in military actions they feel to be immoral.”
“Watching the news, critically and constructively, is a practice.”
“Fundamentalism is the real enemy of progress, and that includes both fundamentalist take-no-prisoners conservatives as well as fundamentalist America-is-a-sink-of-corruption lefties.”
The last time that liberalism confronted a radicalized philosophical challenge, that threat emerged from within Western civilization. Unitarians responded with not one but two major theological renewal movements.