Kieffer Odigaunt, All. You are a Londoneer (at least alias Peter Corteen) Have you noticed the advertisments on buses about God's eventual nonexistence? This brings me to the question why only the Western culture has developed what is called skepticism?
I don't know of any other religion/cultures that has such a schism. There surely are secular Jews and ditto Muslims but these just seem indifferent to religion, not out to debunk it like the scientific skeptics constantly are. There allegedly flourished a Muslim science while Europe was in its Medieval hibernation, but why did there not develop a Muslim skepticism? And there are lots of Jewish scientists, but none seem on the warpath re. Judaism. IMO, this underpins MOQ's about the struggle between intellect and society that has raged since the Greeks and moreover underpins my thesis that Christendom is heavily influenced by intellect and split along the said axis while its origin - Judaism and its close Semitic relative Islam - are solidly inside the social level. Our recent confrontation with Muslims has caused a strange reaction in this country (Norway) The "old testament" (social level) Christians reject their faith and won't have mosques or "hijab" headscarves incorporated police, military or any other uniforms while the intellectual who normally is hostile towards (Christian) religion and ought to be more so re. Islam feel called upon to be liberal and suddenly pro religious "signs" Well, let me not stray, the issue was the intellect vs society struggle showing itself in the Western culture's unique faith/skepticism dichotomy, that to my knowledge is unknown to all other cultures I don't know about any upheaval caused by Darwin's theory in Judaism and Islam that I believe has the same Genesis in their holy books. Bo Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
