On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 1:40 AM, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 1/20/2015 10:17 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote: > >> The more I think about it, the more I doubt that these subjects were >>> simply "abandoned" in an innocent fashion. The problem is that beliefs >>> about fundamental reality are at the foundations of political power, and >>> the powerful know this, even if only intuitively. >>> >> > Read Craig A. James little book, "The Religion Virus" for a history of > religion from that standpoint. > > >> Yes, since always. That is why we are mucky to be in a place where >> scientists have regained some freedom in some domain, but clearly not in >> all (theology and human science are still not done with the scientific >> attitude). >> > > We're in a mucky place because a lot of theologians promote mucky > religions. :-) > > And of those that aspire to rigor, some eventually reach the problem: preaching "my brand of ignorance" seems awfully conceited and self-centered. Why push/force? There's a paradox with education here: that we have to learn to tie our shoes somewhere, to learn that we'll never get it totally right and have no business teaching others about tying their shoes. ;-) Robin Williams as psychologist in Good Will Hunting said something along the lines: "I teach this shit. I didn't say I know how to do it." PGC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
