[lbo-talk] Reich on sex & religion

Manjur Karim piashkarim at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 31 16:18:02 PST 2004


Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> wrote: My own view is that the tsunami is God's latest message to humankind that religion is mindless.

Manjur's Response:

I am an unrepentant heathen myself, so we have something in common. But the point is attributing a set of anthropomorphic moral values to the concept of God (e.g. why does God let tragedy like that to happen?) itself is a Western concept, very much a part of Christian anxiety (pehaps including the angst of the secular Left who is trying to break away from the unconscious religious anchoring) . A Hindu's religious worldview is not challenged in the same way by human tragedy. Tragedy and destruction are seen there as parts of a larger cosmic drama.

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