Faith

[rhisiart at earthlink.net]

anyone know of a democracy in existence anywhere in the world?    i'd like 
to see if dennis is right or not.

R

At 09:45 PM 2/6/2002 -0800, you wrote:
>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