[FoRK] Faith and/or Science dingding redux

[Lion Kimbro]

  Is it possible that we have a codified, dogmatic, prescriptive,
  divisive "insanity" in our own society, that we just don't see,
  because we don't call it a religion?

  I'm not talking about science here.  I'm talking about something
  about how we live.

  Is it possible that this ends up in *real news?*
  Our daily lives, even?



On Nov 28, 2007 9:05 AM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>
> BTW, let's shift the discussion back to the concrete. Again, THIS is
> what religion does:
>
>    http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/28/sudan.bears/
>
>     Teacher charged in teddy bear case
>     CNN - 55 minutes ago
>
>     LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British teacher arrested in Sudan
> after allowing her class
>     to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been charged by authorities
> with offending religion,
>     state-run media in Sudan report.
>
> This is not some academic reductio.  This is *real news.*  This is
> the natural end-point of the religious thought process.  Religion is
> about --- and MUST be about --- intolerance, authority, and enforcing
> behavioral norms.  If you accept the religious givens for any
> religion, this (or somewhere near enough to not warrant argument) is
> where you end up, eventually or from time to time.  Religion MUST be
> about the authoritative, the dogmatic, the prescriptive, the divisive
> --- and therefore opposed to the empirical, objective, and scientific.
>
> It's codified insanity.
>
>
> jb
>
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