The emotional appeal of pluralist slogans: kindness, avoiding anger, hope, tolerance

Winger identifies four reasons the slogans are appealing: (1) they feel kind and nice; (2) they avoid making people angry, especially as culture grows hostile to biblical Christianity; (3) they feel hopeful — everyone is going to be okay; (4) they seem wise and tolerant under the modern redefinition of tolerance, which now means affirming rather than merely coexisting with differing beliefs. Winger says these appeals do not establish the truth of anything — people think they are thinking but are not actually reasoning.