> Brad,
>
> Perhaps the Jewish religion isn't a threat because the Jews -
> unlike other religions - don't proselytize.
I believe there are other religions that don't proselytize (Bahai?).
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Judiasm is an interesting question ever since Zionism, I think. I repeat
what I once read (ref. lost): That, if Hitler had not come along, Judiasn
would have disappeared from Europe by assimilation (another
example of how, even in the early part of the 20th century, Europe
was becoming increasingly post-religious?).
--
Post-religious -- I continue to like that phrase. One could see it as
a "boundary line", and recall the closing lines of Jean Renoir's
film "The Grand Illusion": They're over the border.... The war is over
for them, and so much the better for them.
\brad mccormick
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> McCormick
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> Armageddonist
>
> Quoting Christoph Reuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> 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
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>> 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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