[kj] OT : those infamous Jyllands-Posten cartoons ...

[Scarlet]

Joseph Cambell once said:

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood
metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting
them as facts, then you are in trouble.



On 2/2/06, GregSlawson at aol.com <GregSlawson at aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 2/2/2006 6:16:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> pmdavies at gmail.com writes:
>
> Yes this is the problem of orthodox religions that have invested
> interest in controlling the masses which is no different to many other
> systems that have existed whether it be the Russian Empire of the last
> century or the stark Poll Pot regime in Cambodia
>
>
>
> True, orthodox religion (esp. the fanatical kind) leads to all kinds of
> problems, including hatred (e.g. antisemitism) and oppressive and
> murderous regimes. Currently fanatical Christianity is behind the
> anti-evolution movement, which it uses as a political lever to gain
> followers (probably because it's easy to convince stupid people that "I was
> never a monkey", which I heard a rather stupid person say earlier today at
> work).
>
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