What would be Mr. Spock's logical analysis of the modern fundamentalist Christianity?

Question

Do you believe, as I do, that Mr. Spock, would tear modern fundamentalist Christianity a new one?

Answer 1

I believe that fundamentalist thinking could actually cause Spock to laugh.

Even a Vulcan would have to see the humor in them.

Answer 2

Interesting take on the question.

I'll take it seriously. I think that "modern" fundamentalist Christianity is not as illogical as we tend to think that it is. It's still wrong, in the sense of being full of untrue claims, but not because of reasoning errors. The mistake comes before the reasoning: it's in the assumptions of the religion.

The devout fundamentalist does not attempt to demonstrate god's existence, or that there is an afterlife, or that one's fate in the afterlife depends on how much one obeys the teachings of their particular denomination. Those things are the basic fundamental assumptions of their religious belief system. Once you accept those assumptions, most of the rest of what they claim DOES logically follow.

I think that the same is true for the political far-right. If you buy into the basic assumptions, good reasoning WILL lead you to the end claims (generally).

When modern civilization differs from the religious and political right it is not typically because of bad reasoning on the part of the right, but rather because of differences in the unexamined assumptions.

This is perhaps most clear in the evolution/creationism debate. You have certainly noticed that the creationists use the same invalid arguments over and over again. I'm sure that if there's still online fora in the year 2050, there'll still be creationists convinced that they're clever as they ask "If we evolved from monkeys, why are there still monkeys around?". Why? Because creationists are not reasoning about creationism and evolution, they're defending a base-level assumption. It doesn't have to have evidence or derive logically from other truths - it's what they simply assume to be true.

Of course none of this helps us at all. Once they remove their false beliefs from the realm of reason and evidence, they have chosen not to participate in democratic society. To be fair, though, the same thing can be said about the "identity politics" group on the American left (the folks who assume that all of society's evils are the result of racism and sexism). These worldviews - fundamentalist religion, identity politics, etc. - are not what we think about, they're what we think WITH.

Answer 3

Mr Spock would perform a mind-meld with the fundamentalist to help reset the misfiring neurons in their brain.

Answer 4

i imagine Angelina Jolie reported it stunning: "i became targeted on Spock... he became so repressed, and that i basically had to make him scream." I easily ought to agree. element of the attraction of Spock is his repression, this form of feeling that he needs to be initiated and coaxed into letting bypass and relishing in the overseas exhilaration- that it quite is passionate, uncooked, illogical. In my fantasies, a minimum of, Spock is neither an attentive/gentle lover, nor a dominant/frustrating one. he's fairly no longer that on correct of issues both way. yet at the same time as it occurs, he's *very* in touch, and by no skill frustrating in holding with se, no longer in a wakeful way, yet basically soo became on that he don't have a lot administration to be slow or gentle. it really is an excellent form of me being energetic and teasing him at the same time as he's passive, too. desire that permits!

Answer 5

"That is most illogical. The principle of Occum's Razor allows us to come to the inevitable conclusion that a conscious divine force does not exist, but rather that the multiple phases of existence are inheritly self creating. The belief in a guiding light that has the well being of man in mind is most illogical, but we as beings have transcended the need for such material things due to our free creation of matter. Stupid borg."

Answer 6

I haven't followed the teachings of Spock...O' wise one that he is...but Data said, "Does not compute." Then he went into overload and shut down. I hope we can restore his reason soon. We might have to try rebooting him by using a covert move called "Cheeky".

Answer 7

spock: these people are kidding, right? kirk: no, spock. they belong to a very powerful movement on 21st century earth, led by odious psychopaths who are in it for their own gain. and these poor innocents actually believe the hype. spock: one can only wish them a quick awakening, eh, jim? :-)

Answer 8

Mr Spock, when he last visited Terra, communicated to Scottie...

Yep, you know it,

Beam me up there's NO intelligent life here~!

Answer 9

Maybe, or he might not be able to answer at all for a while, like in Star Trek III when the computer asked him how he felt. He is, after all, half human :)

Answer 10

Absolutely! It relies and preys upon human emotions for it's existence and growth. It is illogical to the very core.