The Liberal Mind: Its Genesis And Propensities
By JUDE DOUGHERTY Foe of the inherited, symbolized by crown and miter, the liberal, although politely agnostic with respect to the existence of God, is a practical atheist hostile to religion and to religious education. Knowingly or not, he is likely to subscribe to a social determinism with allegiance to Emil Durkheim, if not Marx, and to a psychological determinism, notably advanced by Sigmund Freud. The liberal dogmas to which he subscribes have been translated into an educational philosophy by John Dewey and installed as official ideology of the secular state school. The liberal mind does not hold itself accountable to a natural order, let alone to a divinely established plan governing nature and human nature. Lacking a sense of…Continue Reading