The Religion Underneath Our Arguments

Source: The Dispatch
by Michael Reneau & Kevin Brown

“Disagreement is seldom about the presenting argument. Beneath our disputes lie animating commitments, values, and a mental map of the world. Arguments cannot be separated from belief, and belief, at its core, is a matter of faith. In recent years, stories of fractured discourse and division have dominated the headlines, but the problem of pluralism — people with different visions of the good life living among each other—has bedeviled the Western landscape for centuries.” (01/25/26)

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