On Apr 14, 2008, at 2:00 PM, farmelantj at juno.com wrote:
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> -- Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 14, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Charles Brown wrote:
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>> "It's one thing for Karl Marx to assert that "religion is the sigh of
>> the oppressed creature" and another for Barack Obama to claim that we
>> "cling to ... religion" out of economic frustration."
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> "we?" I assume Kristol is an atheist. So why is he "clinging to
> religion?"
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> The neo-cons generally hold the position that religion
> is a good thing for the less enlightened "lower orders."
> That was the position of political philosopher Leo Strauss,
> who was an atheist, and who had great influence over the
> thinking of Bill Kristol's dad, Irving.
Voltaire said it much better: "Si le bon dieu n'existait pas il faudrait l'inventer."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things...it consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."
Herakleitos of Ephesos