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[mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of John Clark
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 8:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Atheist
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
<everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> I would describe it as a societal paradigm… this unspoken rule that all
> should respect religion.
Yes, but why does religion and only religion get this special treatment? Nobody
thinks that all political ideas deserve respect, or economic ideas or
scientific ideas or artistic ideas; some ideas deserve contempt, UNLESS it's a
religious idea, and then you're supposed to respect it no matter how imbecilic
or evil it is. My question is why.
John K Clark
Perhaps because most people are mortally afraid of facing the inevitability of
their own personal death experience. This primal visceral fear is – for most –
offloaded and “answered”, re-packaged and served up as religion. Perhaps the
unspoken rule that religion be respected might be driven by this very
widespread and common dread of actually facing the true core motive force that
gives rise to the need to come up with a religion in the first place.
Maybe it is not respect, but dread fear masquerading as respect.
Riffing here – have no research to back this speculative thought up with.
Chris
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