At around 21/8/06 1:18 pm, Michael Perelman wrote:
> The one strength that I see in religion is that it does have a potential to
> create a
> sense of community. But shouldn't we be looking to build community without
> having to
> construct it on a religious foundation?
>
I don't know... it seems to me that community requires a bunch of things
(kindness, tolerance, equity, etc -- in other words, moral concerns)
that end up in some sense forming a religion, especially when seen in
the light of the only alternative (law of excluded middle, and all)
which is an analytical approach that seems to find such concerns, in the
word of Alberto Gonzales, "quaint", if not outright useless/irrelevant.
But I am an old man and I am more wrong than right. I hope someone
surprises me with how such a community would look and what it would be
based on!
--ravi
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