Two Roads, One Truth | Gerard Casey

Gerard Casey presents the Lou Church Memorial Lecture in Religion and Economics at the 2010 Austrian Scholars Conference. Includes an introduction by Joseph T. Salerno. The ASC is the international, interdisciplinary meeting of the Austrian School, and is for scholars interested or working in this intellectual tradition. Held at the Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, March 11-13, 2010.

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[RichardRoy2]

This is definately an interesting fellow. Great speaker.

[truevoice08]

No matter what your religious views are, the Catholic Church has historically preserved the foundations of Western civilization and that includes liberty and sound economics. Just want to give credit where credit is due.

[Seth Murray]

Makes me want to move to Dublin to study philosophy.

[SlaveryEvolves]

You need to read some serious critiques of critiques of Darwinism. Start with Richard Dawkin's "the greatest show on earth". If your brain is actually functioning. Dawkins will shake your faith in THE FUCKING BIBLE. You are walking speaking irony.

[SlaveryEvolves]

Darwin? You mean evolution is a pseudoscience? I'm an anarcho capitalist mathematician/logician. I don't have any need for you to explain anything about knowledge to me. Nice ad hom/admission of failure.

[SlaveryEvolves]

This is terrible.. there is no god.. and you can't just use analogies to prove a stupid point. And this guy is correct on so much... sad.

[j4ck2234]

Belief is not a matter of intellectual amusement, believing in a creator has significant impact on your behavior. Science and Religion are 2 different things, sure they interact quite heavily I don't think I minimize that.

Why would you need fear to convert? The universe is an odd place, it's not strange to come to the conclusion that there is purpose in it. If anything I am afraid of conversion. Atheism is easy, almost natural - To introduce universal judgment makes things complicated.

[j4ck2234]

Also it's just plain stupid. People 4000 years ago thought the earth was made out of cheese, AHA, NO GOD!....very odd.

[j4ck2234]

Just to vent a little about the 'new' atheism: I think their whole success is based upon a constant attack on any form of social organisation by the state. The state is by it's nature a nihilistic enterprise that tries to replace all forms of peaceful interaction with violence. Religion on the other hand is a facilitator of social cooperation, religious rules are mostly affirmations property rights, they can't stand that. I do not think that organised atheism is beneficial to civilization.

[groupflix]

If it is just a belief (a.k.a. opinion) then it is rather boring, and essentially useless. It only becomes useful is there is some truth behind the believe. I think you minimize the overlap between the realms of science and religion. I find discussion of spirituality boring, and useless. But what ever trips your trigger. My original point was that I can understand going from believer to non-believer , but not the reverse, other than fear (e.g., Pascal's wager).

[j4ck2234]

+btw, we shouldn't swallow everything the fashionable vulgar atheists come up with these days.

Christian thought encourages scientific research because it uses the fact of physical reality to discover the nature of god. For example economic science tells us that cooperation is beneficial to either involved party. What does that say about the nature of god? It is no accident that the scientific revolution arose first in the Christian world. (although there are other important consideration here)