RE: Religion for Atheists
May 8, 2012 at 11:50 am
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2012 at 12:23 pm by Anomalocaris.)
I am not inclined to take him seriously based on the brief blurb in Amazon.
The problem seems to be that he assumes what is good in religion is there because of religion, and therefore unique to religion. Consequently religion has something unique and worth learning from [/i][i]despite the fact that what religion actually intent on pushing the hardest is self-aggrandizing bullshit.
That may be true to a very limited extend for some creeds which at times value some form of self reflection over any definite pretense at cosmology. But I believe it to be essentially untrue with any larges scale religion relies on an asserted cosmology.
I would contend that in fact the only thing really unique to each religion that is based on asserted cosmology is the particular variation of the bullshit pushed solely for purpose of its own self-aggrandizement. Such things worth learning as having also been weaved into any religion is certainly not there because of religion. If anything, they are residues of common virtues overlooked by the efforts to promogate more selfaggrandizing bullshit. As such, they can be better learned outside of any religion.
The problem seems to be that he assumes what is good in religion is there because of religion, and therefore unique to religion. Consequently religion has something unique and worth learning from [/i][i]despite the fact that what religion actually intent on pushing the hardest is self-aggrandizing bullshit.
That may be true to a very limited extend for some creeds which at times value some form of self reflection over any definite pretense at cosmology. But I believe it to be essentially untrue with any larges scale religion relies on an asserted cosmology.
I would contend that in fact the only thing really unique to each religion that is based on asserted cosmology is the particular variation of the bullshit pushed solely for purpose of its own self-aggrandizement. Such things worth learning as having also been weaved into any religion is certainly not there because of religion. If anything, they are residues of common virtues overlooked by the efforts to promogate more selfaggrandizing bullshit. As such, they can be better learned outside of any religion.
