{"id":12818,"date":"2011-04-24T09:25:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T13:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12818"},"modified":"2011-04-24T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T13:25:19","slug":"the-delusion-of-secular-objectivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-delusion-of-secular-objectivity\/","title":{"rendered":"The delusion of secular objectivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/8469734\/Lord-Patten-attacks-intolerant-secularists.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lord Patten of Barnes, the former Cabinet minister and a practising Catholic, said that he felt he was regarded as &#8220;peculiar&#8221; over his faith.<\/p>\n<p>His comments come amid a deepening battle over the freedom of religious belief, which last week saw a Christian electrician threatened with the sack for displaying a cross in his van.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Patten, a Conservative peer who will take control of the BBC Trust next month, is the highest-profile political figure to enter the debate over what is seen as a creeping attempt to remove Christianity from public life.<\/p>\n<p>But his comments angered secularists, who last night expressed concern that his faith could affect his ability to remain objective in making decisions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately for secularists, the only possibility there is for objectivity in making decisions is if a Mind exists that is higher than the human mind.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise all decisions are, at best, by definition subjective and at worst, meaningless mechanistic by-products of an indifferent universe, making the <em>concern <\/em> expressed by the secularists, by their own measure, of no account and Lord Patten eminently suited to his new position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Lord Patten of Barnes, the former Cabinet minister and a practising Catholic, said that he felt he was regarded as &#8220;peculiar&#8221; over his faith. His comments come amid a deepening battle over the freedom of religious belief, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-delusion-of-secular-objectivity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049,1025],"class_list":["post-12818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism","tag-lord-patten-of-barnes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}