The vexing thing, both from the inside and the outside is that most religious folk are perfectly comfortable with that reality. For some the point is dogmatism they can believe in; others can conceive the logical preposterousnessof many points of religion and are perfectly happy in the paradox.
DC
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au>wrote:
> Religion is, at heart, dogmatism. There's no escaping that Chris.
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> Bill Bartlett
> Bracknell Tas
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> At 6:29 AM -0800 20/11/08, Chris Doss wrote:
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> I think it depends on what one means by "religious" (which doesn't mean
>> "certain" or "dogmatic" -- doubt is a central theme in Christianity after
>> all, even if we restrict ourselves to what I personally think is the most
>> interesting religion). Certainly a lot of the ethical precepts in Marx (and
>> Enlightenment figures in general) are ultimately of Christian derivation,
>> and the eschatology has a lot of parallels with it.
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