how convincing is the liberal notion that human beings are reason guided creatures
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Cognitive psychologists have built a strong case to show that everyone is driven mainly by emotion. The higher centers of the brain are used to rationalize what we want to do. One of the best examples is the way antebellum Northerners and Southerners in the U.S. both found evidence in the Bible to support their opposite views of slavery. This is the subject of a recent column by Michael Gerson, attached.
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The most depressing historical example of rationalization can be found in Mark Noll's brilliant "The Civil War as a Theological Crisis." In the mid-19th century, prominent ministers in the North used the Bible to justify abolitionism, while prominent ministers in the South employed the Bible to justify slavery. According to South Carolina minister James Henley Thornwell: "That the relation betwixt the slave and his master is not inconsistent with the word of God, we have long since settled. ... We cherish the institution not from avarice, but from principle."
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