Understanding our Present Moment
Within Russell McCutcheon’s “Understanding Our Present Moment,” he illustrates the various ideas and arguments portrayed in this day and age, primarily in relevance to religious scholars and their concept of the sacred. Russell brings to attention a comment recently made by President Trump in response to the removal of the confederate monuments, and the protests that have occurred involving the defilement of such. Trump argues that the removal of such memorials is a “slippery slope,” and he questions whether or not we will be able to draw a definitive line between which statues will remain and which will be removed.
For example, Trump brings into question the statues of our founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson, contending that since they owned slaves it would be enough to bring controversy to the validity and necessity of what the monuments stood for. On the contrary, religious scholars like McCutcheon have been able to assist in clarifying this line by acknowledging the context and society that the founders existed in. In addition to this, McCutcheon goes on to claim that they were “simply a product of their time,” and that in the context of the time period, they all strived for a better …show more content…
Be that as it may, there will never be a simple solution to the problems at hand until people stop arguing over each other, and genuinely take into consideration the judgement of the other part. Every individual has outside factors that determine the way that they think and perceive certain things, and as a result of this, everyone is able to build their own concrete conceptions of what they believe the be right or wrong. Furthermore, individual interpretation is the cause for so much debate since there is no true right or
Within Russell McCutcheon’s “Understanding Our Present Moment,” he illustrates the various ideas and arguments portrayed in this day and age, primarily in relevance to religious scholars and their concept of the sacred. Russell brings to attention a comment recently made by President Trump in response to the removal of the confederate monuments, and the protests that have occurred involving the defilement of such. Trump argues that the removal of such memorials is a “slippery slope,” and he questions whether or not we will be able to draw a definitive line between which statues will remain and which will be removed.
For example, Trump brings into question the statues of our founding fathers such as Washington and Jefferson, contending that since they owned slaves it would be enough to bring controversy to the validity and necessity of what the monuments stood for. On the contrary, religious scholars like McCutcheon have been able to assist in clarifying this line by acknowledging the context and society that the founders existed in. In addition to this, McCutcheon goes on to claim that they were “simply a product of their time,” and that in the context of the time period, they all strived for a better …show more content…
Be that as it may, there will never be a simple solution to the problems at hand until people stop arguing over each other, and genuinely take into consideration the judgement of the other part. Every individual has outside factors that determine the way that they think and perceive certain things, and as a result of this, everyone is able to build their own concrete conceptions of what they believe the be right or wrong. Furthermore, individual interpretation is the cause for so much debate since there is no true right or