Re: MD terror & religion

From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Fri Nov 05 2004 - 17:17:42 GMT

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    Hi Sam

    Interesting, do you feel attacked in this interview?
    Can you expand upon what is misconceived by the author?
    Personally I put a fallible seeking of truth before religion,
    and fear the potential violence of those who claim to 'know'
    although at this time this seeking places me outside of the
    secular camp and its built-in incapacity to face its own inadequacies.

    DM

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Sam Norton" <elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 12:11 PM
    Subject: Re: MD terror & religion

    >
    >
    >> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/542154/103-3536518-9271063
    >>
    >> this interview about religion & terror may be of interest.
    >>
    >
    > 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.
    >
    > Sam
    >
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