On Jun 18, 2005, at 11:19 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
You're stretching an actual definition into a metaphor. The features I
listed (plus several others) are the ways anthropologists and
theologians identify religions as opposed to other kinds of
organisations like zaibatsu or bowling leagues.
It might be an apt and amusing metaphor but it is not actually the
case that capitalism is a religion or quasi-religion. It is the case
for Nazism and Stalinism however.
Hmm. You're going to have to come up with some evidence to support the
claims you've made -- first, that what I've pointed out is any more or
less metaphorical than what you've posited; and second, that what
you've posited has definite characteristics that are *not* what you
define as metaphor.
FWIW, I wasn't referring earlier to Nazis -- I was pointing out the
atrocities committed by atheists. Naziism wasn't atheistic.
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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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