I personally think that the problem is not religion, but the fanaticism it encourages.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Mary Jo Sminkey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think you can argue that Nazism, and classic Bolshevik communism >> were religions. For instance Hitler and Gobbels made an active effort >> to replace Christianity with Nazism as the official religion. And >> Communism was a religion. >> >> I suspect that if you scratched a fanatic, you'd find religion. > > > That would require a bit of a stretch in terms of how you define religion, > but certainly Dawkins is defining it as a belief in a supreme God. I'd > certainly disagree that fanaticism is the same as religion in that respect, > which is the basic argument I was making. There is a difference in terms of > following a certain creed or set of rules "religiously" and calling something > a religion. If you define communism as religion, then basically you are > considering atheists as religious fanatics as well. Which I doubt most > atheists would agree with. ;-) > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:308354 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
