The self-congratulation, indeed hubris of the religious apologist, meaning in this case the Christian branch of the benighted Abrahamic Tradition, is unsurprising! The only thing that saved Christianity from its own provincialism was a heavy infusion of the ideas of the thinkers of Greece and Rome, that you hold in your sovereign contempt! Without that you would still be torturing and then burning heretics like Giordano Bruno. Or just silencing scientists like Galileo. Thomas Aquinas’ model was Aristotle.
And as for this fragrant bon mot‘…neoliberalism has emotionalised and thus de-politicised its critics.’ Read Wendy Brown’s ‘Undoing the Demos: Neo-Liberalism’s Stealth Revolution’ for one of the most devastating critiques of your sacred, untouchable Neo-Liberal Economic Theology:
http://www.zonebooks.org/titles/BROW_UND.html
Or read ‘Hayek : The Good, the Bad ,the Ugly’
http://www.criticalreview.com/crf/current_issue25_34.html
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