Oddly enough last night I was talking about this with my brilliant 14 year old daughter in a related context, she blames it on monotheism, notes that the Greeks and the Romans didn't care what people believed as long as they paid their taxes. Take it for what it is worth . . . . Bring back Zeus and Aphrodite! (Especially the latter).
I will pray to Aphrodite Cause she wears that see thru nightie And it's good enough for me Gimme that old that religion, etc.
(Pete Seeger)
jks
--- Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
> >
> >On Friday, December 26, 2003, at 02:51 PM,
> Eubulides wrote:
> >
> >>Why, in history, are there all the various
> attempts by groups to privilege
> >>their interpretation of reality and society at all
> and to impose it on
> >>others? From what does this 'need' [for lack of a
> better term due to my
> >>own limitations] come?
>
>
> Because the existence of rival views is a threat to
> one's own; it allows
> room for doubt. I have suspected, not that I have
> any grounds for this other
> than a hunch, that one reason for Medieval
> anti-Semitism was that the very
> existence of people who did not accept Revealed
> Truth was a threat to the
> self-evidence of that truth. Everybody excepted The
> Truth except for Those
> People; their existence indicates that maybe it is
> not The Truth after all.
>
>
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