On 30 Dec 2014, at 01:38, 'Chris de Morsella' via Everything List wrote:
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From: Alberto G. Corona <[email protected]>
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Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: Democracy
>>The Soviet union can be formally considered a "democracy". There
is nothing external or formal that may distinguish a democracy from
any other regime. Since every modern state has the same elements.
All of them use the momenclature of the age. The word democracy is
the most overused world in this century togeter with "scientific".
No word comes close to matching the overuse of the word "god" however.
Yes, ... and no.
For the greeks "God" was just a pointer to the truth we are searching,
through theories and observation. It led to math and physics, +
inquiry about which one is more fundamental, and what might still be
beyond math and physics. That use of God remains in some language
expression, like when we say "only God knows", which means "I don't
know".
Then, when the science "theology" has been recuperated by politics,
and when religion get institutionalized, the term God has become the
name of some hero in some fairy tale, and the science behind has been
put under the rug, and is still taboo today (which I can understand
for the Church's employee, but not for the atheists, which should on
the contrary be open to the coming back to reason in that field.
Eventually I conclude that atheism is *really* the religious mirror of
christianity. They have the same notion of God (even if it is used
only to be denied) and they have the same notion of primary matter
(modulo some details).
So God is both not enough used (it means the unknown fundamental
reality, simply) and overused (idolatry, blasphems, argument by terror
(like with hell), etc.).
Bruno
-Chris
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