>Anthony D'Costa wrote:
>>
>> May be I wasn't clear enough: there is one thing as organized religion and
>> then there is spirituality. I meant the
>
>Spirituality, not organized religion, is the evil. The left (when we get
>a left) must _of course_ include all religious leftists, even among the
>leadership. But the core of the left always has been and always will be
>materialist. "Spirituality" (in _all_ of its forms) leads to confused
>thinking and confused feeling.
>
>This is a long debate and I'm not going to carry it on now. I have other
>immediate interests. But I don't think that this banal appeal to
>"spirituality" should be allowed to pass without at least an indication
>that it can't be taken for granted.
>
>Carrol
"Spirituality" is a feeling appropriate for a young prince who for
the first time in his life beholds poverty, illness, death, & old
age; gets "enlightened"; explains that desires cause sufferings; &
teaches how not to cling to desires that cause sufferings.
Yoshie
