Speaking of obscurantist, if secular religions have been a failure,
why do you repeat this failure by calling for the scientific
elimination of "alienation, domination, and exploitation"?
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> This, of course, is Rousseau's idea of the civic (and secular) religion,
> seemingly filtered through that old obscurantist, Hegel. I think that
> secular religions have by and large been a failure. Look at the one closest
> to Rousseau in history, the secular religion of the French Revolution that
> began in 1789. Or look at the somewhat Jacobin kinds of Marxism that have
> morphed into secular religions (usually adulating the Party Leader). Though
> I doubt that religion will ever go away, since it answers people's basic
> and un if we want humanity to
> make progress toward the abolition of domination, exploitation, and
> alienation, we need to emphasize a scientific style of thinking over the
> religious one.
>
> Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
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