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I suspect your the nature of your objection is something you can't quite grasp yourself. Calling it sexist seems a safe way of attack.

It is one thing to know that we like or don't like something. Much harder is understanding why. Usually we give the first acceptable "reason" that comes to mind rather than trying to figure it out. Figuring out why we like or not often takes a number of thought experiments.



> Calling it sexist seems a safe way of attack.

Not really, this article is sexist. But alright, this is not reason enough to dismiss it.

The illustration of nihilism show a complete misunderstanding of what nihilism is (the enlightment strawman is pretty intersting too).

Theologians usually do have an education in philosophy and in history, so the man writing this is probably not one. I'm not saying only theologians have the right to reflect on religion, but they are often more thoughtfull than random bloggers.

Although i was educated with classical/continental philosophy, i did read a lot of analytic philosophy, and if the writer is American or from the commonwealth, he was exposed to analytic philosophy (or at least more than i was). And that shows in the development of his article.

But before you craft, you should learn from your master and from your peers, and the writer pretty much ignored all modern analytical works and wrote something that is so behind his time that it becomes interesting to read and to understand.


Nope, I’m looking at some pretty specific frames the author is pushing, see below.




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