journalistic crackpots in public life (was: religious crackpots in public life)

[Carl Remick]

>On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 08:31:55 PDT Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> 
>wrote:
>
> > Religion is at least as great a menace to overall human  potential as
>capitalism and is a good deal more entrenched.
>
>Religion is also a great menace to capitalism, take some passages from the
>christian scriptures: "my house shall be a house of prayer: but you have 
>made
>it a den of robbers" ... "the whole group of those who believed were of one
>heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, 
>but
>everything they owned was held in common..."
>
>Normally those who follow up on this are called cultists...
>
>ken

They sure are, starting right at the beginning with the Essenes.  As far as 
I can see, every attempt to make communitarian principles a central theme of 
Christianity has been marginalized for two millennia.

Carl
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