On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:37 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 2 Aug 2005, at 6:14 pm, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Aug 1, 2005, at 4:59 PM, William T Goodall wrote:
My own take on this is that a country that is more religious than
the UK is bound to exhibit more depraved and bestial behaviours
across the board - more murder, more rape and so on. A country
mired in primitive religious superstition is hardly likely to shine
on respect for human rights.
Well, it *had* been a compelling post until this graf. Is EVERY evil
that exists ANYWHERE attributable in your mind to religion?
Stupidity and ignorance have roles too :)
Heh, indubitably. But I still think it's rather naive to suggest that
*all* behavior we judge as atrocious can be attributed to one root
cause. The argument that it's all because of religion is as simplistic,
I think, as the argument that we're innately a violent species, that
it's somehow "in our genes" to perpetrate violence. Hubbard tried
something similar in attributing all negative behavior to "engrams" and
founded a cult of lunatics in the process.
One-sided monochromatic thinking tends to lack subtlety and doesn't
often see that *some* validity for *some* points of view does not equal
100% rectitude in all situations. That's a long way around suggesting
the outlook "it's all religion's fault" is not only monotonous but
possibly obsessive. It's also patently false. I can think of quite a
few evils not perpetrated in the name of religion.
--
Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books
http://books.nightwares.com/
Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror"
http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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