Religion can override political rights and material gains when believers hold it inviolable

Evidence

Does Patterson believe in the pricelessness of human beings because, of all earthly things, human beings are capable of love? To maintain this belief in the face of the inevitable pricing of human worth requires faith. Does Patterson believe that our decisions are impossible to explain causally because they are the products of free will? To maintain this belief in the face of the usual modern explanation requires faith. Does he believe that our legal decisions are inevitably moral because-not in spite of-the factladen, culture-laden nature of legal judgment that cannot be captured by an external moral calculus (because the decider is also the critic, the observer is the participant) and thus requires an account be given in its own terms, which alone can satisfy the conscience? — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Mode of production can assign dominance to politics or religion in different epochs; Religions should be judged by their survival value to their nations; Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. (+12 more)

Related

• Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation (similarity 0.86)
• Mode of production can assign dominance to politics or religion in different epochs (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Political movements must engage the religious terrain where religion is the dominant ideological domain. #expands (0.40)
• Maintaining core moral beliefs requires faith, not causal explanation #corroborates (0.30) — Philip Chase Bobbitt, Reflections Inspired by My Critics, 896