Comments on: On JZ’s call for a national dialogue on “our moral code” http://synapses.co.za/jzs-call-national-dialogue-moral-code/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=jzs-call-national-dialogue-moral-code one neuron at a time is better than nothing Mon, 21 May 2012 14:02:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Brief thoughts on Jack Bloomhttp://synapses.co.za/jzs-call-national-dialogue-moral-code/comment-page-1/#comment-2325 Brief thoughts on Jack Bloom Tue, 10 Jan 2012 11:20:07 +0000 http://synapses.co.za/?p=346#comment-2325 [...] that religion “should serve as a moral and spiritual inspiration“.But even this view (the mistaken one, that morality and religion are easy bedfellows) is at least comprehensible, given that our country [...] [...] that religion “should serve as a moral and spiritual inspiration“.But even this view (the mistaken one, that morality and religion are easy bedfellows) is at least comprehensible, given that our country [...]

]]> By: Jordan Pickeringhttp://synapses.co.za/jzs-call-national-dialogue-moral-code/comment-page-1/#comment-294 Jordan Pickering Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:59:14 +0000 http://synapses.co.za/?p=346#comment-294 Important article, but not, it seems, published in an important enough place (unless I'm mistaken). It's also a worry to me that the NILC will not only be plucking a ready-made morality off of one or more shelves, and thus shelving all discussion, but also that the Ray McCauleys of the world are almost certainly ill-equipped to understand the Biblical morality that they claim to be representing. So, even if Biblical morality is wise (as I still maintain), it is only so when properly understood. Whatever gets aired over at the NILC is likely to be ham-fisted traditionalism of the kind that happily pastes favourite selections of the Old Testament onto modern South Africa without any further analysis. Important article, but not, it seems, published in an important enough place (unless I’m mistaken).

It’s also a worry to me that the NILC will not only be plucking a ready-made morality off of one or more shelves, and thus shelving all discussion, but also that the Ray McCauleys of the world are almost certainly ill-equipped to understand the Biblical morality that they claim to be representing. So, even if Biblical morality is wise (as I still maintain), it is only so when properly understood. Whatever gets aired over at the NILC is likely to be ham-fisted traditionalism of the kind that happily pastes favourite selections of the Old Testament onto modern South Africa without any further analysis.

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