tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post1517574585691751761..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: The Righteous Mind, by Jonathan HaidtAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-81549233520187618282015-12-28T19:38:24.871-05:002015-12-28T19:38:24.871-05:00My personal experience is that knowing about him a...My personal experience is that knowing about him and having read his Narnia Chronicles gave me some space for conversion, but nearly all my reading of him was after, serving to reinforce and retain my new faith. I suspect that this is often true of apologetics. They seldom convert, but they do undergird.<br /><br />I'll be writing about Haidt and his revisions shortly.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-32165275619503490382015-12-28T08:11:32.641-05:002015-12-28T08:11:32.641-05:00I read Haidt recently, and was intrigued by his sy...I read Haidt recently, and was intrigued by his system of "moral foundations." It was also interesting that he and his colleagues have revised the system at least twice, which indicates they are not especially doctrinaire about it.<br /><br />Your experience of C. S. Lewis reminds me of a question I've often considered: Are Lewis's apologetics more use in converting people or in helping people retain their faith? Or regain it?Earl Wajenberghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03972213104063301125noreply@blogger.com