[lbo-talk] Appeal to Ignorance

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Mon Jun 13 06:47:01 PDT 2005


On 6/13/05, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:


> take as their spiritual starting point the fact of exploitation and
> oppressions of human beings rather than seek God in the laws of
> nature, trying to supplant or compete with scientists (which only
> fundamentalists do): "critical theology seeks first of all to
> disclose the setting of the church in the life of the people: is it a
> power of repression and an accomplice of domination, or is it the
> home of the poor and a power for their liberation?" (Jürgen
> Moltmann, _Theology Today_, Trans. John Bowden, London: SCM Press;
> Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1988, p. 20). You would
> be more ignorant of religion than science, if you believed that you
> had to equate religion with science or else religion would be of no
> worth at all.

yoshie -- you often say things like this that i think are essentially correct, indeed, i think your last sentence here is spot on, and more religious (and areligious or irreligious) people need to understand that. which is why i've decided all of the religion majors at our school have to read gilkey before they are allowed to graduate.

i just think more people might hear what you're saying if you didn't always sound like you were lecturing us. just a thought.

peace

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Among medieval and modern philosophers, anxious to establish the religious significance of God, an unfortunate habit has prevailed of paying to Him metaphysical compliments.

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