> On 4 May 2020, at 23:00, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 5/4/2020 4:12 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: >> I might disagree. Especially if you keep in mind that theology ws born as a >> science, before becoming an institionised oppression system, when separated >> from science for that purpose. > > Yes, it was born as explanation for natural phenomena in terms of human > emotions, because human emotion was directly experienced and seemed to need > no explanation. So when a storm was explained as the sky became angry that > seemed easy to believe and one had only to discern why the sky was angry.
That looks more the poplar religion, the myth, the mythologies, but that is were Plato begun to depart from, accepting only the rational emotion as a way to proceed. > The priest or chief or your mother explained it was because you didn't > sacrifice a goat to him, or you disobeyed a rule, or you didn't eat your > spinach. Yes, but the greek theologian knew better, even if from times to times some fall again in the superstition, or when some tried to attract the christians who were more and more numerous. Plotinus fought against this, but Proclus was open to some form of theurgy. I am with Alan watts on this: if the rest can blink, and does not take itself too much seriously ..; why not, as many have an impulse toward some community and children love Fairy Tale. Yet, at some point, we have to abandon the fairy tales in our fundamental research, and that is what (Neo)platonism did. > But there were many phenomena. Monotheism simplified the system and provided > one-stop shopping...as soon as a few wars and inquisitions settled which one > God was the really real one. Don’t remember the zoroastrien, nor the jews, to have impose monotheism to anyone. Nor the christian for the first five centuries. Inquisition, like radical islamism is just the use of institutionalise religion (in other word bs) to steal the money and the work of the people, and should not even be classified in religion, no more that Lyssenko genetics should be consider as part of biology. To get rid of the superstition in religion, and of all fundamentalism and use of violence, we have to let theology/metaphsyics come back in science. Science is just a right: the right to be wrong and to change pur minds, in any domain. Bruno > > Brent > > -- > 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 view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/9c2074b5-b3f6-ba15-f08d-80c9ab1d5337%40verizon.net. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/D6ECF726-F29C-448A-A4DF-95F48989EAAB%40ulb.ac.be.
