On Feb 1, 2005, at 12:25 PM, Dan Minette wrote:
[nick]
Do you have an example of a religion-free culture to which we could compare? Otherwise, it seems to me that there's little evidence to be considered.
We do have evidence of societies which were officially anti-religious. Marxist societies have tried to stamp out religion for years.
Nick asked about a culture, though, which to me is a deeper thing than a society. And it's a good point.
We could
contrast the attitude towards and the development of science in the Soviet
Union and the United States for example. We could look at which country
made decisions based on irrational assumptions, and what the outcome of
those decisions were.
You understand, I hope, that the fault lay in the irrationality of the Marxist "ideal", and not in the decision to reject stories about six-day creations or world-girdling deluges or resurrections or ghosts.
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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