[lbo-talk] Class, Power, and Religion (was Last Supper, in a leather harness)

ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Sun Sep 30 20:56:33 PDT 2007


On 30 Sep, 2007, at 22:29 PM, Peter Hart Ward wrote:
> Personally, I agree with Bertrand Russell that,
> "Religion belongs to the infancy of human reason";

Perhaps! But the infancy at which human reason currently exists -- how useful is that to human affairs? ... for values might have their reason, that Reason does not [yet] value ...


> Furthermore, I am skeptical about whether those who claim to be
> atheists in fact are. I would regard, as John Dewey did, Marxists as
> theists in the truest sense (beyond a superficial level Marxism is in
> fact, a few novel ideas aside, a virtual analogue of Christianity)*,
> e.g. A willingness to face unpleasant, often embarrassing, facts, and
> the ability to make rational choices is crucial, and clearly
> belonging to any kind of fanaticism will make this difficult or
> impossible;

It was good to have known you, ;-) -- Kidding aside, I greatly liked your post. Thank you for that,

--ravi



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