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vor 18 Jahren
Alarming developments at the UN now threaten freedom of expression
world wide. Austin Dacey, philosopher and Center for Inquiry's
representative to the United Nations joins us to explain how the
core principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has
been abandoned by the very council that is charged with upholding
it. How did the UN, which was founded on humanistic principles,
come to this? And why are so many unaware or unconcerned about
these developments? In his book "the Secular Conscience" Dacey
argues that western liberal secularism "lost its soul" when it
began treating claims of conscience as purely subjective matters
that do not belong in the public sphere. By privatizing conscience,
secular liberals sought to keep religion separate from politics but
only succeeded in placing a gag order upon themselves thus giving
up the language of morality to religious conservatives. Now is the
time for secularists to reclaim civic moral dialogue and defend a
free and open society. For inspiration, Dacey adds, we should look
to the courageous men and women of the Secular Islam Summit who's
approach to matters of conscience more closely resembles our
enlightenment forbearers than that of modern secular liberals.
Reasonable Doubts: Your skeptical guide to religion offering news
and commentary of interest to skeptics, atheists, humanists,
apologists looking for a challenge and freethinkers of all
persuasions.
world wide. Austin Dacey, philosopher and Center for Inquiry's
representative to the United Nations joins us to explain how the
core principle of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has
been abandoned by the very council that is charged with upholding
it. How did the UN, which was founded on humanistic principles,
come to this? And why are so many unaware or unconcerned about
these developments? In his book "the Secular Conscience" Dacey
argues that western liberal secularism "lost its soul" when it
began treating claims of conscience as purely subjective matters
that do not belong in the public sphere. By privatizing conscience,
secular liberals sought to keep religion separate from politics but
only succeeded in placing a gag order upon themselves thus giving
up the language of morality to religious conservatives. Now is the
time for secularists to reclaim civic moral dialogue and defend a
free and open society. For inspiration, Dacey adds, we should look
to the courageous men and women of the Secular Islam Summit who's
approach to matters of conscience more closely resembles our
enlightenment forbearers than that of modern secular liberals.
Reasonable Doubts: Your skeptical guide to religion offering news
and commentary of interest to skeptics, atheists, humanists,
apologists looking for a challenge and freethinkers of all
persuasions.
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