Ultimacy advocates invest great time and energy casting sinuous word spells to convince you that they and the historical legion of theologians, philosophers, and church fathers they mimic and echo have God and reality all figured out, and that all you need to do in turn is respectfully and humbly bow your head and join the club.
At the same time, those who assert ultimacy also tend to be among the worst at discernment in this time and place, which leads to a rather glaring paradox.
You would think that all those prolix proclamations about the true nature of God and Creation would provide ultimacy upholders with a distinct advantage when it comes to things like discerning good from evil; however, for some mysterious reason, it does not.
On the contrary, they consistently rank among the worst at discernment.
I find that odd and unsettling. All that philosophy, theology, and tradition rendered instantly meaningless and useless when confronted with something like AI, the birdemic scam, the 2020 church lockdowns, or mundane politics.
Well, not entirely meaningless and useless because ultimacy aficionados will inevitably utilize all the philosophy, theology, and tradition they can muster to elaborately elucidate why none of the above are actually evil, thereby compounding the problem.
Although I have no definitive answer as to why discernment among ultimacy defenders leans toward the disastrous, I strongly suspect the cause lies in their core assumptions (re: assertions) about reality, particularly their assumptions about evil and freedom.
Fittingly enough, ultimacy proponents do not seem troubled by their poor discernment. I suspect the nonchalance stems from loving a good mystery; and let's face it, at the end of the day, there is nothing those ultimacy chaps love more than mystery.
For them, reality ultimately ends there anyway.
At the same time, those who assert ultimacy also tend to be among the worst at discernment in this time and place, which leads to a rather glaring paradox.
You would think that all those prolix proclamations about the true nature of God and Creation would provide ultimacy upholders with a distinct advantage when it comes to things like discerning good from evil; however, for some mysterious reason, it does not.
On the contrary, they consistently rank among the worst at discernment.
I find that odd and unsettling. All that philosophy, theology, and tradition rendered instantly meaningless and useless when confronted with something like AI, the birdemic scam, the 2020 church lockdowns, or mundane politics.
Well, not entirely meaningless and useless because ultimacy aficionados will inevitably utilize all the philosophy, theology, and tradition they can muster to elaborately elucidate why none of the above are actually evil, thereby compounding the problem.
Although I have no definitive answer as to why discernment among ultimacy defenders leans toward the disastrous, I strongly suspect the cause lies in their core assumptions (re: assertions) about reality, particularly their assumptions about evil and freedom.
Fittingly enough, ultimacy proponents do not seem troubled by their poor discernment. I suspect the nonchalance stems from loving a good mystery; and let's face it, at the end of the day, there is nothing those ultimacy chaps love more than mystery.
For them, reality ultimately ends there anyway.
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