John Stuart Mill was right. Only by having our ideas challenged and tested does each of us come to understand what we believe. Read on.
“The secular inquisition: why must Christian politicians defend their beliefs,” was the headline on her piece.
The member for the Highland riding of Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, where the whiskies are peaty and the people forthright , is a practising Christian, and clearly lives by the biblical injunction not to lie. Which makes her an unusual politician, to say the least. Despite what her position would have been in 2014, her current position on gay marriage is that her personal conviction on the matter is unlikely to change but if she becomes leader, she won’t try to turn the clock back.
The Spectator’s Hardman, who has a religious background herself, wondered in her column why it is that only Christian politicians are asked in detail about their moral beliefs. As she says, “Everyone has a world view which needs interrogating.” In fact, you don’t really understand what that world view is until it has been interrogated, both internally and by others asking you or indeed challenging you about it.
Internal challenging is fine. We all have a debate going on in our minds about right and wrong . But, increasingly, that internal debate is the only debate that’s going on. Increasingly, we all go around like Winston Smith in Orwell’s 1984, thinking thoughts that seem true to us but that we daren’t say out loud. More and more, there are the official lines on things — not necessarily the government line but the line approved by social media — and then not much else.
The result of that, Hardman argues, is that people don’t really understand why they think what they think . And so our ideas get sloppy. Until you’ve written something down, I’ve always thought, you don’t really know what you think. But until you’ve had an argument with somebody about it, you don’t really know, either.
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