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hehehe.... --- In [email protected], "Bukan Pedanda" <bukan.pedanda@...> wrote: > > > What atheists can learn from religion > > http://edition.cnn.com/2012/02/26/opinion/de-botton-religion-atheists/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 > > CNN > > Editor's note: Alain de Botton is the author of a new book "Religion for > Atheists" and of "How Proust Can Change Your Life." He is the founder of > www.theschooloflife.com and of an architectural organisation called > www.living-architecture.co.uk. He spoke at the TED Global conference in > Edinburgh, Scotland, last year. TED is a nonprofit dedicated to "Ideas worth > spreading" which it makes available through talks posted on its website. > > London (CNN) -- Probably the most boring question you can ask about religion > is whether or not the whole thing is "true." Unfortunately, recent public > discussions on religion have focused obsessively on precisely this issue, > with a hardcore group of fanatical believers pitting themselves against an > equally small band of fanatical atheists. > > I prefer a different tack. To my mind, of course, no part of religion is true > in the sense of being God-given. It seems clear that there is no holy ghost, > spirit, geist or divine emanation. The real issue is not whether God exists > or not, but where one takes the argument to if one concludes he doesn't. I > believe it must be possible to remain a committed atheist and nevertheless to > find religions sporadically useful, interesting and consoling -- and be > curious as to the possibilities of importing certain of their ideas and > practices into the secular realm. > > One can be left cold by the doctrines of the Christian Trinity and the > Buddhist Fivefold Path and yet at the same time be interested in the ways in > which religions deliver sermons, promote morality, engender a spirit of > community, make use of art and architecture, inspire travels, train minds and > encourage gratitude at the beauty of spring. In a world beset by > fundamentalists of believing and secular varieties, it must be possible to > balance a rejection of religious faith with a selective reverence for > religious rituals and concepts. > > TED.com: Karen Armstrong's wish for a charter of compassion > > It is when we stop believing that religions have been handed down from above > or else that they are entirely daft that matters become more interesting. > > We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs > which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to > solve with any particular skill: firstly, the need to live together in > communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent > impulses. And secondly, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of pain > which arise from our vulnerability to professional failure, to troubled > relationships, to the death of loved ones and to our decay and demise. > > God may be dead, but the urgent issues which impelled us to make him up still > stir and demand resolutions which do not go away when we have been nudged to > perceive some scientific inaccuracies in the tale of the seven loaves and > fishes. > We have grown frightened of the word morality. We bridle at the thought of > hearing a sermon. > Alain de Botton > > The error of modern atheism has been to overlook how many sides of the faiths > remain relevant even after their central tenets have been dismissed. Once we > cease to feel that we must either prostrate ourselves before them or > denigrate them, we are free to discover religions as a repository of > occasionally ingenious concepts with which we can try to assuage a few of the > most persistent and unattended ills of secular life. > > Secular society has been unfairly impoverished by the loss of an array of > practices and themes which atheists typically find it impossible to live > with. We have grown frightened of the word morality. We bridle at the thought > of hearing a sermon. We flee from the idea that art should be uplifting or > have an ethical mission. We don't go on pilgrimages. We can't build temples. > We have no mechanisms for expressing gratitude. > > The notion of reading a self-help book has become absurd to the high-minded. > We resist mental exercises. Strangers rarely sing together. We are presented > with an unpleasant choice between either committing to peculiar concepts > about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, > subtle or just charming rituals for which we struggle to find equivalents in > secular society. > > TED.com: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives > > Religions merit our attention for their sheer conceptual ambition; for > changing the world in a way that few secular institutions ever have. They > have managed to combine theories about ethics and metaphysics with practical > involvement in education, fashion, politics, travel, hostelry, initiation > ceremonies, publishing, art and architecture -- a range of interests which > puts to shame the scope of the achievements of even the greatest and most > influential secular movements and individuals in history. > > For those interested in the spread and impact of ideas, it is hard not to be > mesmerized by examples of the most successful educational and intellectual > movements the planet has ever witnessed. > > There are sides of religions that are timely and consoling even for skeptical > contemporary minds. Atheists can learn to rescue some of what is beautiful, > touching and wise from all that no longer seems true. The wisdom of the > faiths belongs to all of mankind, even the most rational among us, and > deserves to be selectively reabsorbed by the supernatural's greatest enemies. > Religions are intermittently too useful, effective and intelligent to be > abandoned to the religious alone. > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
