David Ray Griffin was one of the foremost exceptions I had in mind when thinking about the depredations of theology. Theology can be occasionally interesting when it exhibits some kind of literary, poetic, imaginative or philosophical brilliance. But folks with this kind of talent usually focus on writing literature, not theology, which tends to be a gaseous and bloated medium. Theology is usually a weak form of imaginative literature which makes the preposterous claim of describing the real world -- in a word, wanking. Ratzinger is a wanker par excellence -- try reading some of his sophistical babble for yourself. He would be cut to shreds at any decent American university. Why Europeans put up with him, I have not the slightest idea. Apparently the neocons will have little trouble playing him like a cheap violin, since his Nazi instincts are so close to the surface of his personality.Vigilius
Haufniensis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:As for Ratzinger's pretensions to being an intellectual and a devotee of reason -- what could be more absurd. If Ratinzger truly respected reason, he would find it necessary as a matter of intellectual honesty to abandon all the superstitious mumbo jumbo and claptrap which has elevated him to his current position as a bogus authority on human and social affairs. I can't think of a single creative or useful insight that has come from the mind of Ratzinger.
Theology generally produces very little in the way of interesting knowledge. Theology usually is a form of sterile wankery. Smart people as a rule do not do theology -- they occupy their minds with more substantive matters. VMANN: david ray griffin does all right in theology, with reference to whiteheads process oriented worldview as well as to the political and "conspiratorial" realms. vigilius haufniensis
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