Why should we speak of it in religious terms? Why not in ethical terms? — Banno
DO you think we would be able to get out of this mess without science? One can't jump of the rollercoaster after it starts. — Banno
Religion changes what is going on to match what is said. The world is made to fit the theology. — Banno
Religion brings about the Taliban. — Banno
And yet when we try to talk of religion we hear how science gives us keyboards and religion gives us the Taliban. Being aware that everything has its good and bad doesn’t mean that otherwise intelligent people won’t dramaticize in order to make it clear that they don’t like something. — Ennui Elucidator
Until fairly recently, religion as the locus of issues of ultimate concern in the Western tradition is pretty unobjectionable. — Ennui Elucidator
And in the mean time we have vaccination, air conditioning, interweb stuff, pain relief, surgery, vehicles. And fewer intestinal parasites.It looks like science is both the disease and the cure, thr former confirmed but the latter pending. — TheMadFool
It looks like science is both the disease and the cure, thr former confirmed but the latter pending.
— TheMadFool
And in the mean time we have vaccination, air conditioning, interweb stuff, pain relief, surgery, vehicles. And fewer intestinal parasites.
I don't mind a bit of science. — Banno
I am not quite so dismissive. Banno, for instance, knows what rhetorical devices are and he isn’t naively employing them. And the bashing of religion to the glory of science isn’t confined to one generation or another, but dignified restraint is certainly on the wane. — Ennui Elucidator
the bashing of religion to the glory of science — Ennui Elucidator
...a language community is a group of people that uses symbols in a way supportive of their cooperative/coordinated behavior. [...] It is more about the general use of symbols in a way that tends towards the groups continued use of those symbols. — Ennui Elucidator
In part, the reason I am interested in religion is in response to the notion of alienation and the continued isolation of the individual. It is as if we had to go through things like existentialism where we rejected dictated meaning to find the freedom to give meaning to that which was previously imposed. Man is a social beast, after all, and so it may have been a fool’s errand to expect man to define himself against the world rather than to carve himself out from within it. — Ennui Elucidator
...using a symbol invokes all other contexts in which the symbol was used. — Ennui Elucidator
And an ethical dimension that is ignored as religions mythologise themselves.there is a certain richness (and extended dimensions) to religious conversations that are not found in ethical conversations — Ennui Elucidator
And an ethical dimension that is ignored as religions mythologise themselves. — Banno
After which ethics class did the sculptor make a statue of the goddess Aphrodite? — Ennui Elucidator
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