Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he doesn't care if he's being truthful or not.
I'm saying that his model of truth is wrong. A thing having bad consequences doesn't make it untrue. His attitude is "the consequences of this idea are so bad that it must be untrue," which is a logical fallacy.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he doesn't care if he's being truthful or not.
I'm saying that his model of truth is wrong. A thing having bad consequences doesn't make it untrue. His attitude is "the consequences of this idea are so bad that it must be untrue," which is a logical fallacy.
But because he addresses the truth value of the ideas he is criticizing, with appeals to both Scripture and observations about the world, I would say the argument he is making is "This is false, and also it's spiritually unhealthy." Actually, in his own words he says, "Woke ideas are false and corrosive to the Christian worldview." I feel like you're focusing on a handful of sentences and not the meat of the writing here.
I also think that when what we're really addressing is an entire worldview and not individual assertions about reality, the spiritual/psychological harmfulness of that worldview is very relevant as to how we should treat it. Any given person's worldview is going to contain a mix of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. But a worldview can easily be more harmful than another even if it contains more truths and fewer falsehoods, and there's nothing wrong with calling out these harms.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that he doesn't care if he's being truthful or not.
I'm saying that his model of truth is wrong. A thing having bad consequences doesn't make it untrue. His attitude is "the consequences of this idea are so bad that it must be untrue," which is a logical fallacy.
But because he addresses the truth value of the ideas he is criticizing, with appeals to both Scripture and observations about the world, I would say the argument he is making is "This is false, and also it's spiritually unhealthy." Actually, in his own words he says, "Woke ideas are false and corrosive to the Christian worldview." I feel like you're focusing on a handful of sentences and not the meat of the writing here.
I also think that when what we're really addressing is an entire worldview and not individual assertions about reality, the spiritual/psychological harmfulness of that worldview is very relevant as to how we should treat it. Any given person's worldview is going to contain a mix of truths, half-truths, and falsehoods. But a worldview can easily be more harmful than another even if it contains more truths and fewer falsehoods, and there's nothing wrong with calling out these harms.