So I think the direction in which you would want Solstice to change—to be more positive towards religion, to preach humility/acceptance rather than striving/heroism—is antithetical to one of Solstice’s core purposes.
While I would love to see the entire rationalist community embrace the Fulness of the Gospel of Christ, I am aware that this is not a reasonable ask for Solstice, and not something I should bet on in a prediction market. While I criticize the Overarching Narrative, I am aware that this is not something that I will change.
My hopes for changing Solstice are much more modest:
Remove the inessential meanness directed towards religion. There already has been some of this, which is great ! Time Wrote the Rocks no longer falsely claims that the Church tortured Galileo. The Ballad of Smallpox Gone no longer has a verse claiming that preachers want to “Screw the body, save the soul // Bring new deaths off the shelves”. Now remove the human villains from Brighter Than Today, and you’ve improved things a lot.
Once or twice, acknowledge that some of the moral giants whose shoulders we’re standing on were Christian. The original underrated reasons to be thankful had one point about Quaker Pennsylvania. Unsong’s description of St. Francis of Assisi also comes to mind. If you’re interested, I could make several other suggestions of things that I think could be mentioned without disrupting the core purposes of Solstice.
While I would love to see the entire rationalist community embrace the Fulness of the Gospel of Christ, I am aware that this is not a reasonable ask for Solstice, and not something I should bet on in a prediction market. While I criticize the Overarching Narrative, I am aware that this is not something that I will change.
My hopes for changing Solstice are much more modest:
Remove the inessential meanness directed towards religion. There already has been some of this, which is great ! Time Wrote the Rocks no longer falsely claims that the Church tortured Galileo. The Ballad of Smallpox Gone no longer has a verse claiming that preachers want to “Screw the body, save the soul // Bring new deaths off the shelves”. Now remove the human villains from Brighter Than Today, and you’ve improved things a lot.
Once or twice, acknowledge that some of the moral giants whose shoulders we’re standing on were Christian. The original underrated reasons to be thankful had one point about Quaker Pennsylvania. Unsong’s description of St. Francis of Assisi also comes to mind. If you’re interested, I could make several other suggestions of things that I think could be mentioned without disrupting the core purposes of Solstice.