From: Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> To: Killer Bs Discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Bill Moyers: There is no tomorrow Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 17:26:27 -0500
* William T Goodall ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> In the case of the Soviet Union and the United States, for example, > there are several overwhelmingly more significant differences than the > matter of religion to consider. So much so that I don't see how any > conclusion at all could be reached about the relative contribution of > religion to the development of science in either.
It's really kind of funny. He keeps making that reference, but as near as I can figure, his reasoning goes something like: a society needs some sort of ideology, and if that ideology isn't a religion, then it could be something worse like totalitarian communism.
I rather think that a society can get by without ANY ideologies. Certainly England seems to be doing okay, and you Brits are much less religious than Americans.
I haven't read this thread in its entirety yet (just lettin' ye all know).
Anyway, I'm not understanding the above statement. Surely any and every society that exists today, and has existed in the past, has at the very least, some semblance of ideology intrinsically present in its very being. The gods are with us all, are they not?
-Travis "he's talking about religion, I'm talking about concision" Edmunds
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