From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 15:11:29 GMT
> > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/542154/103-3536518-9271063
> >
> > this interview about religion & terror may be of interest.
> >
Sam says:
> Sigh. Yet another ill-informed diatribe. DMB will like it though ;-)
>
> Seems to me that there are indeed serious problems with the way that
> monotheistic faiths are working themselves out, but if all the criticisms
> of those faiths are based upon ill-considered prejudice then there will be
> no way of finding a creative (ie DQ) resolution, which preserves those
> things which are good in the western religious tradition, whilst minimising
> the bad. These sorts of thinkers, so it seems to me, are merely replicating
> the 'hippy' problem that Pirsig talks about - they are cutting out the
> ground from under their feet. Wherever we end up, it will have to be an
> ideology that affirms elements of the social level, otherwise we truly are
> doomed.
Right on, Sam. The religion of rationalism championed by this acolyte of
amoral science completely ignores the role of the social level in keeping
biological forces at bay. Another diatribe by a "hippy" who wraps himself
in the mantle of science's unprovable assumptions.
Platt
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