Dear visionaries,
Susanna wrote: “Alternative visions like slavery, Doug?”
To which I respond: Sure, given relativism, why not? Susanna needs to stop opposing slavery and racism as “her personal preference” (binding on no one) and start opposing it for principled reasons, as I do. Abandon your principled defense of relativism, which cannot be distinguished from a principled defense of racial slavery, or anything else that can be worked into a Cole Porter song. Anything goes. Is that true? Then’s what’s eating you? If it is not true, then please tell us by what standard you make your ethical pronouncements.
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.