On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:40 AM, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1/20/2015 10:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> The more I think about it, the more I doubt that these subjects were >>> simply "abandoned" in an innocent fashion. The problem is that beliefs >>> about fundamental reality are at the foundations of political power, and >>> the powerful know this, even if only intuitively. >>> >> > Read Craig A. James little book, "The Religion Virus" for a history of > religion from that standpoint. > > >> Yes, since always. That is why we are mucky to be in a place where >> scientists have regained some freedom in some domain, but clearly not in >> all (theology and human science are still not done with the scientific >> attitude). >> > > We're in a mucky place because a lot of theologians promote mucky > religions. :-) > > And of those that aspire to rigor, some eventually reach the problem: preaching "my brand of ignorance" seems awfully conceited and self-centered. Why push/force? There's a paradox with education here: that we have to learn to tie our shoes somewhere, to learn that we'll never get it totally right and have no business teaching others about tying their shoes. ;-) Robin Williams as psychologist in Good Will Hunting said something along the lines: "I teach this shit. I didn't say I know how to do it." PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
