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No, we do not need a "sociology of collectives". Your essay sounds like a grant application to somehow prove your relevance to Christian thought. Pompous pontifications from over-educated moron professors in the social sciences, which are NOT really sciences, as the real Scientific Method has no relevance, all of their work is a compilation of similarly educated "propaganda peddlers". As it is all about who can give the most persuasive argument or tickle ears, like Paul warns us against.

2 Timothy 4:3-4 New American Standard Bible

3 For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires, 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth and will turn aside to myths.

God created us all as individuals designed by Him for particularly purposes, tribal theory has NO place, but distracted us from that sacred Biblical Truth, that we ALL were created equal in His image. With no regard for race, creed, or geographic location of ourselves or forebears.

Richard Feynman had a great saying, that readers should heed, regarding any social scientist showing off his credentials and urging us to take his opinions more seriously that the word of God.

Richard Feynman: Never Confuse Education with Intelligence, you may have a PhD and still be an idiot.

This is particularly true of political scientists, who are about as trustworthy as Paul Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propagandist.

And your word salad, dropping all the "names" in the social "sciences" that you think agree with you, just shows a lot of morally stupid ungodly people agree with one another.

Sincerely,

Gene

Eugene F Douglass, MS, MDiv, PhD

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I don't think I agree with Mabry, but if that's the best refutation you can come up with I might need to take a second look.

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Well, that is all I can do here in this forum. Most of those "socalled" wise men he relies upon for his missive are not doctrinally solid. Many are NOT Christians either. I highly recommend this book, the author addresses the problem in the social sciences particularly, as it is all subjective, with no solid biblical moral standards. Some people may compose "wise" prose, but if their family and personal lives are depraved or full of families being destroyed, even people dying. Satan is the author of confusion.

Read this book for a great perspective on elevated prose, opining on sociological issues....

https://bit.ly/intellectpj

And of course this one:

https://amzn.to/3TOZgzw

Gene

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If Mabry is so obviously wrong, it should be a trivial exercise to come up with something better than "this idea is wrong because there are ungodly people who believe it."

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