>On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:47:35 -0800 joanna <123hop at comcast.net> writes:
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>>Doug Henwood wrote:
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>>>Who said churches are emancipatory? They tell you to believe
>>>improbable things, and are full of commandments, rituals, and
>>>prohibitions!
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>>Have you been to a Quaker meeting lately?
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>>Or sat in meditation?
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>>Or even for that matter, stepped into a Unitarian church?
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>>Just curious.
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>Alas, the Quakers, Unitarians and Zen Buddhists comprise
>only a tiny fraction of the religious believers in the US.
>For most American religionists, religious faith is the
>demand that one believe all sorts of improbable things
>and obey non-rational or irrational commandments
>and prohibitions.
>
I'm sure you're right, but I don't see how that demand is different from
other secular/cultural demands for blind faith and obedience.
Joanna