Hi Bo, 2009/2/16 <[email protected]>
> > You are a Londoneer (at least alias Peter Corteen) Have you > noticed the advertisments on buses about God's eventual > nonexistence? No, i havent seen any - but have read about them. > This brings me to the question why only the > Western culture has developed what is called skepticism? > that is just an opinion - you mean an outspoken disbelief in God? > > 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. You may be quite wrong about that! > 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. If what you say is true maybe they are just behind the times and a little backward. 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. > I dont think so Bo; i cant see the MoQ in that light; from a certain point of view i can see validity in what you say but to use opinion to underpin your clarification / re-categorisation of the levels? Yours is an evolutionary MoQ - I prefer the Classic MoQ (haha) whereby all human experience has two polarised aspects - mind and matter. I think this fits well with evolutiory theory cf. memes and genes. > > 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" You mean signs like on the side of the bus? > > > 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. It may be because those cultures/religions are more binding than for instance the Anglican that you dont see more vocal objections - but there are some Omid Djalil - always believe it - you are indestructible<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XULtWR37Glk>who are more outspoken. -KO 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/
