Worth Re: [FoRK] Faith and/or Science - Newton et al

[Luis Villa]

On Nov 28, 2007 6:29 PM, Tom Higgins <tomhiggins at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2007 1:50 PM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar
> <drernie at radicalcentrism.org> wrote:
>
> > Religion is about creating shared meaning, and that cuts both ways.
>
> That is an interesting definition of religion.
>
> http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Form=Dict2&Database=*&Query=religion
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
>
> all have definitions as well.
>
> Shared Meaning though, that would be an interesting thing  to ponder.
> You mean like a Flickr group? Would a flickr group eventually grow to
> be able to have parts of that group feel justified in stoning a rape
> victim?

*every* human group is capable of growing to doing violence against
the outsider. If you think some group you're a part of is different,
you haven't been reading up on your Milgram and Zimbardo.

Religions are just more successful than most groups, so you're more
easily able to call to mind more negative examples.

Luis