Third Disagreement

I agree with Dennis Prager on almost everything. I am an egoist in ethics, and he is an altruist. I am a polytheist-Monotheist, and Prager is a Jehovah-based monotheist.

I watched one of his Prager U videos tonight, and I uncovered a third area of disagreement, but it is a partial not total disagreement like the first two mentioned above.

In this video on the lack of connection between goodness and rationality, Prager contends that, for 300 years from the Age of Reason going forward, educated people equated reason as their salvation that allows people to think good thoughts, and do good things. There was no longer a need for God and religion to teach people to be good and do good.

Terrible private crime, or state crimes, are motivated by the perpetrators being crazy, irrational and senseless.

All we need is sweet reason and logic to lead us to goodness and a good world.

Dennis strongly denies any connection between reason and goodness. He asserts that reason is a mere tool, a neutral tool like a knife that could be used to stab another to death, or be used by a surgeon in surgery to save lives.

I partially disagree. Reason can be used for good or evil, that is obvious and factual. Dennis right there. But I am an ethical and metaphysical moderate. Truth is rarely either/or, but is more often both/and with what is true, good and right being in the majority on one side of the contraries, and  is in part good, true and right from the minority input from the other, opposing contrary.

What is majority-wise, false, evil and wrong  is more on one side of the contraries, and is, minority-wise, false, evil and wrong.

Now, let us return to the relationship between reason and good and evil. God is more reasonable than De is emotional. Lucifer is more emotional than reasonable. Both the light deities and the dark deities think and feel, but the light deities feel less than they think, and the dark deities feel more than they think.

Thinking is not only an inductive and deductive logical, mental process of reasoning, but it is also a worldview held by ethical beings.

Feeling is not only an internally sensing organ for making decisions and intuiting, but it is a worldview that can be easily corrupted.