Moira Donegan tweeted today that the charge of not seeing [PEOPLE_TYPE] \u201cas human\u201d is off and it\u2019s more a matter of not valuing humanity
And having boggled at that charge before that does get at a fundamentally religious element of my burgeoning conservatism (beyond being a white male homeowner closing on 40 etc.)
That while I see myself as from-but-beyond Christianity, my model of humanity does basically mirror Christian \u201coriginal sin\u201d - that humans qua humans are inherently failed and unworthy BECAUSE of being human thus imperfect and mortal.
And what I shed as supernatural and sentimental and superficial in rejecting Christianity was the offer of salvation - easy unearned validity - through the blood of the lamb OR alternative folk rituals, etc.
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