Faith

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Wed Feb 6 21:45:34 PST 2002


On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Nathan Newman wrote:


> It's the
> definition of theology by faith in which there are no testable propositions
> put forward that are ever held up as ways to disprove the argument.

Democracy is not some lab experiment which you can re-run any number of times to get the correct result, and any attempt at confusing the natural sciences with what Marx satirized as the natural history of capital ends up in the bad affirmation of prehistory.

Adorno pointed out that theology at its most radical actually comes very close indeed to the dialectic: where it wishes for the resurrection of the flesh, i.e. for what people could be, instead of what the total system makes of them here and now.

-- Dennis



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