----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 9:12 AM Subject: Re: The Clash of Fundamentalisms
> Maybe it's you, Chuck, or maybe it's me with my relative success as a
lawyer
> and formerly a professor, but I don't experience this yawning void, etc.,
of
> which you speak. I think what's called for is materialist analysis of the
> appeals of fundamentalism, not existentialism. jks
What would a materialist analysis look like, in this case? If it were to be plausible, it would have to account for the vast psychic comfort of a) believing in God and b) believing yourself to be (infallibly) in the right.
-- Luke