{"id":1765,"date":"2014-06-29T18:26:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T00:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maxmarmer.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2016-01-05T18:29:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T00:29:45","slug":"postmodern-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxmarmer.com\/blog\/postmodern-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-Modernist Methods for Peace Paradoxically Push it Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is the post-modern critics who paradoxically in their desire for peace, equality and empathy ignore the developmental nature of reality and the human mind and consequently propose courses of action that lengthen the time to solution and thus foster more death and destitution.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Harris on the interior of Muslim consciousness (not your post-modern inaccurate projection of having minds just like yours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Islam marries religious ecstasy and sectarian hatred in a way that other religions do not. Secular liberals who worry more about \u201cIslamophobia\u201d than about the actual doctrine of Islam are guilty of a failure of empathy. They fail not just with respect to the experience of innocent Muslims who are treated like slaves and criminals by this religion, but with respect to the inner lives of its true believers. Most secular people cannot begin to imagine what a (truly) devout Muslim feels. They are blind to the range of experiences that would cause an otherwise intelligent and psychologically healthy person to say, \u201cI will happily die for this.\u201d Unless you have tasted religious ecstasy, you cannot understand the danger of its being pointed in the wrong direction.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is the post-modern critics who paradoxically in their desire for peace, equality and empathy ignore the developmental nature of reality and the human mind and consequently propose courses of action that lengthen the time to solution and thus foster more death and destitution. 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