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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Brad McCormick
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:06 AM
To: Christoph Reuss
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Subject: Re: [Futurework] Daniel Quinn: Radical Hair-Shirt Armageddonist
> Brad McCormick wrote:
>> Here's a different perspective, from the Christian Science Monitor:
>>
>> "What place for God in Europe?"
>>
>> http://csmonitor.com/2005/0222/p01s04-woeu.html?s=spworld
>
> I think the CSM is exaggerating the relevance of religious debates
> in Europe (but then, what else could be expected from a magazine with
> "Christian.." in its title?).
One thing that has always struck me about the Christian
Science Monitor newspaper is its general fairness on
ideological and religious issues. I have never come across
an example of "the monitor" slanting anything in a
pro-religious direction, unlike, e.g., as the article points
out, George W Bush. Has anyone ever seen anything
in "the monitor" that even looked like it was
pushing the agenda of any religious faith? Indeed,
I think "the monitor" is one of the least one-sidedly
pro-Israel mainstream newspapers -- not that they
are anti-Israel, but they tell you what the
Palestineans are thinking in a relatively dispassionate
way. I generally trust "the monitor". Anyone disagree?
The debates that the CSM refers to
> are about unconstitutional activities and dangers of certain religious
> splinter groups rather than about the relations between religions and
> secularism in general.
When the new pope was being elected, the 3 main
concerns the cardinals were addressing, according to one
commentator associated with the RCS, were: (1) internal
church governance, (2) relations between the Roman Church and
Islam, and (3) secularism, especially in Europe -- the commentator
even used a term I found evocative: he said Europe was
increasingly "post religious".
In this sense it's also strange that the CSM
> article omits Judaism in its first phrase: "Across Europe, the conflicting
> currents of secularism, Christianity, and Islam
How big an issue is Judaism today, compared with
"secularism, Christianity, and Islam"? The article did not
mention Bahai, Buddhism, TM, The Unification Church,
Hinduism or a number of other religions, either....
I would argue that the most important thing is not
what religion persons happen to believe in, but whether
they think they should judge themselves and others by the
dictates of that religion (George Bush, Osama bin Laden,
the Pope, et al.), or whether they should judge
the tenets of that religion (including its Deity/ies, etc./et al.)
according to their own and others'
rational deliberations (the idea of
Europe, and of any other self-reflectively self-accountable
beings there may be in the universe and in history...).
"Yours in discourse...."
\brad mccormick
are compelling Europeans
> to wrestle with their values as never before."
>
> Chris
>
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