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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: TronTron Date: Mar 8, 2007 14:25
Hi, Tron,
brilliant post.
"Tron" skrev i melding
news:w4udncdUPtfiFm3YRVnzvQ@telenor.com...> Hi,
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>> EG, a god that uses evolution as a mechanism for creation does not affect
>> the study of science nor evolution specifically, so why create problems?
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> The problem with religion is not the content of the cosmologies of the
> various religions, but the claims of their adherents to have the right to
> prescribe a way of life to others; which is the core of religion. All the
> trappings of religious cosmology and sundry other ad hoc "spout", ex
> cathedra on festive occasions, used to serve as beat-them-over-the-head
> dogma, now it serves as a shibboleth to separate the willingly credulous
> followers from dangerous independent thinkers, who believe we are no
> longer in the Dark Ages.
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You and I, we both forgot to mention that rejecting religious cosmology is
part of rejecting religious dogma, and as such a struggle for liberty; which
in its turn is an example preciesly of considering epistemological phenomena
in an ethical framework.
However, I do not reject religious dogma because it is not useful - it
probably would be very nice if I could go to Valhall and fight all day, and
be revived to eat rib roast, drink mead and cavort with Valkyries all night
(and if you have seen Scandinavian girls up close and personal, you know you
can keep all the Houries...), for as long as the World exists - but because
it, as far as I am able to tell and calculate the probability of, is not
true.
- Oh, well said, Tron.
- Thank you, Tron.
- We're ....
- ....welcome?
Tron
You must stop talking to myself.
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