On 7/19/2014 10:08 PM, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
*From:*[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
Behalf Of *John Clark
*Sent:* Saturday, July 19, 2014 8:27 PM
*To:* [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: Atheist
On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> 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.
As Kurt Vonnegut has one of his characters say, "If you don't 'truth' me, I won't 'truth'
you."
Brent
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