[lbo-talk] Signs of the Times

[wrobert at uci.edu]

As to Catholicism, there was a lot of good stuff going on during the 60's
and 70's, but that's been been taken care of.  No more Vatican II
evidently.  As to protestantism, there is certainly an impressive
intellectual tradition in its origins, but at this point, the average
protestant where I'm from knows very little about the Bible (which is
kinda depressing given the origins of protestantism)  Although personally,
I agree with Spinoza that the core kernel of Christianity is not terribly
complicated at all, and that the general attempt to make religion into
philosophy is an act of mystification.  robert wood


> Chris on the superiority of Catholicism to Mormonism
>
>> There may be a Mormon equivalent to Thomas Aquinas or Duns Scotus
>> out there, but if so I haven't heard of him.
>
> To which, Doug replies
> 'They've been dead for 700 years! Today, we've got the cretinous Ratso. '
>
> But you could add James Connolly, Muriel Spark, Chico Mendes, Graham
> Greene, who are more contemporaneous.
>
> Still, I think Protestantism is a definite social advance on Catholicism,
> but Mormonism is definitely a slide back into worse mumbo-jumbo than
> Catholicism, what with the burning salamanders, re-discovered metal books
> and lost tribes of Israel and all.
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