I hate to begin the new year on the lbo list on a harsh note, but I have to agree with wojtek's criticisms here. I've been feeling rather mellow toward religion lately -- having recently watched "A Christmas Carol" for the zillionith time, read an entertaining, edifying diary by a deeply religious man (the actor Alec Guinness) and otherwise been exposed to religion's better side. However, as I've said here in the past, I simply can't see organized religion as anything other than highly dangerous in its net impact on the human condition. Certainly as an organized movement, Christianity strikes me as profoundly un-Christian -- a faith more interested in wielding control than addressing the need for social justice. Moreover, ALL the major monotheistic religions, as I've said before, have built-in, zero-sum doctrinal differences that will give rise to ever greater tensions as the world's peoples come increasingly into contact with one another.
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