Jim Farmelant wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Dec 2003 09:37:52 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
> writes:
> > Carrol Cox wrote:
> >
> > >Even as an empty verbal formula it tends to dry up and blow
> > >away within a mass movement,
> > >then flourish again in when mass struggle declines.
> >
> > Religion isn't a mass movement?
>
> I think his point was that religious enthusiasm thrives
> during periods of political quiescence.
Yes. Jim explains my point precisely. And no, religion is _not_ a mass _movement_; neither is watching television or wearing clothing -- though huge masses of people do both. Every so often Doug says something which makes me wonder if he has ever read a page of political history.
Carrol