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Saturday, April 19. 2014

Piety, with Socrates and Euthyphro

Today is Holy Saturday for the Catholics, but we Protestant Yankee New Englanders just call it "yard chore Saturday" or Trout Fishing Saturday.


I was thinking about how the term "pious" has become an almost derogatory, if not derogatory, term, which took me to Euthyphro.  Never get in a debate with Socrates expecting to win, but always get in one if you want to be forced to re-think what you think.



Posted by The Barrister in Religion at 13:29 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Apparently "debate" doesn't mean what it used to, either.

http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/04/does-traditional-college-debate-reinforce-white-privilege/360746/#
#1 B Moe on 2014-04-19 16:47 (Reply)
its Holy Saturday for the Orthodox and Anglicans. Possibly even the Lutherans.
#2 Impious V on 2014-04-19 22:46 (Reply)
Isn't piety one of those things that exist only as ideas, like altruism? Or am I all wet?
#3 W. C. Taqiyya on 2014-04-20 09:20 (Reply)
Are you all wet? You know yourself best.
#3.1 Hank VIII on 2014-04-20 12:12 (Reply)

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