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Art/Literary - Religion | | English term or phrase: rationalizes away | | The efforts of mankind alone cannot bring reconciliation. Quite the contrary, man’s sinful nature fights against reconciliation through coercion and deceit, compelling all to accept politically correct resolutions that are effete, ineffective and inadequate. Mankind ***rationalizes away*** the truth of the gospel by promoting acceptance of all views and denigrating gospel truth as prejudicial and offensive. |
|  Ana JuliáKudoZ activityQuestions: 3545 (none open) ( 21 closed without grading) Answers: 1027
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| | uses sophistry to evade the | Explanation:
"To rationalise away" means to justify -- to erect a complex and apparently "true" argument on false intellectual premises. Of course, all arguments, right and wrong, moral or not, are based on premises which themselves may not be proved (and rarely are.) The only truth really proved in this life is 2+2=4. And you have to pay taxes.
For example, we can justify downloading music from the internet by arguing that it's the same as copying onto a cassette, which everybody has bene doing for years anyway. So we "rationalise" the download and feel that what we are doing is right, because the premise seems to have been long established already (30 years) that borrowng an album from a friend and copying it is just the same as putting your music online and letting 1000 strangers copy it -- and the favour is returned by these strangers making their own "taped" music available. There is a kind of moral slippage here that the writer is referring to. So he says "'rationalise away" - the "away" means to do away with the moral problem; to send it away, out of sight.
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to EVADE THE "TRUTH" -- my answer field got truncated |
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8 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +5 uses reason to dismiss
Explanation:
Mankind uses reason to dismiss/deny the truth of the gospel by promoting relativism and disparaging the gospel's truth as biased and offensive.
| Neil Mann
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