Ernie: As you can tell, except to the extent that Shamanism is important to understand if you want to know about the origins of religion, or if you have an interest in Iroquois or Cherokee culture, I'm not much for oral tradition. Religion, to me, requires scripture in something like the same way the US requires a constitution. Without it, too much is not dependable generation to generation. Guess this could be debated, but would it do much good to do so ? I'm highly suspicious of oral tradition. That's the bottom line. Plenty of troubles with "literary religion," nobody needs to tell me, but, again, it is like having a constitution to appeal to. Billy ================================================ In a message dated 4/12/2010 10:57:41 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
Hi Billy, On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:01 AM, [email protected] wrote: > But it seems self-evidently true that if you are religious and > take your faith's scriptures seriously as vital to life, you will want to > read the texts closely to get full meaning. You will want to know > "all the details," and find out the best ways to analyze > various sacred writings. Interesting. Presumably that only applies to "literary" religious traditions., right? I don't think animism or earth-worship benefits literacy as much. -- Ernie P. > _______________________________________________ Centroids mailing list: [email protected] http://radicalcentrism.com/mailman/listinfo/centroids_radicalcentrism.com Archives at http://radicalcentrism.org/pipermail/centroids_radicalcentrism.com/
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