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Emotions in the Christian Tradition (SEP) + Religious Liberty

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Emotions in the Christian Tradition - First published Wed Feb 1, 2006; substantive revision Fri Nov 18, 2016
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotio...tradition/

EXCERPT: This article discusses several interrelated questions that philosophers, theologians, and psychologists address about religious emotions. Do they have some essence? Is there one emotion-type that warrants the title “religious,” or are there many religious emotion-types? How do religious emotions differ from “ordinary” emotions? Are they “cognitive” or “non-cognitive,” “rational” or “non-rational”? What good are they? What epistemic import, if any, have they? This article will focus on emotions in or purportedly in the Judeo-Christian tradition....



Religious Liberty
http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=9987

EXCERPT: [...] The American experience has shown that the acceptance of religious freedom, as imperfect as it may be, has helped maintain the stability of the United States. While we have many sects and religions, we do not have sectarian or religious violence at any significant level. While there are, of course, other factors that contribute to this, the freedom of religion has contributed significantly. In recent years, there have been claims that religious liberty is under attack in the United States. As a holiday tradition, Fox News runs its yearly absurd stories about an alleged war on Christmas....
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(Nov 22, 2016 01:40 AM)C C Wrote: Emotions in the Christian Tradition - First published Wed Feb 1, 2006; substantive revision Fri Nov 18, 2016
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/emotio...tradition/

EXCERPT: This article discusses several interrelated questions that philosophers, theologians, and psychologists address about religious emotions. Do they have some essence? Is there one emotion-type that warrants the title “religious,” or are there many religious emotion-types? How do religious emotions differ from “ordinary” emotions? Are they “cognitive” or “non-cognitive,” “rational” or “non-rational”? What good are they? What epistemic import, if any, have they? This article will focus on emotions in or purportedly in the Judeo-Christian tradition....

Religious emotions are ordinary emotions that the secular sublimate into similar devotion to social group identities. The difference is relevant below.

Quote:Religious Liberty
http://blog.talkingphilosophy.com/?p=9987

EXCERPT: [...]  The American experience has shown that the acceptance of religious freedom, as imperfect as it may be, has helped maintain the stability of the United States. While we have many sects and religions, we do not have sectarian or religious violence at any significant level. While there are, of course, other factors that contribute to this, the freedom of religion has contributed significantly. In recent years, there have been claims that religious liberty is under attack in the United States. As a holiday tradition, Fox News runs its yearly absurd stories about an alleged war on Christmas....

Religious liberty has helped maintain stability because religion offers a uniquely outside viewpoint on humanity. Protecting that liberty helps to unify this aspect of all religions. The alternative to religious liberty is the comparatively narrow group identification of secularism, where people are apt to identify with increasingly narrow defined groups whose interests are at odds.
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