Middle East Scrapbook.

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Re: Middle East Scrapbook.

Post by Hermit » Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:38 am

JimC wrote:
Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:56 am
Perhaps, but I would still contend that any religion is at least mildly poisonous, even with its teeth pulled, in that it encourages a fantasy view of reality. Right now, humans need a hard-nosed appreciation of reality (or at least as close as evidence-based science will get us). Nothing else has a chance of letting our species navigate the perils ahead, both to us and the biosphere.

And sure, different religions, and the different eras they operated in have greatly different degrees of poison. But aphorisms, even those that miss nuances have their place...
With the exception of "perhaps" and "aphorisms, even those that miss nuances have their place" I agree with everything you wrote here. I would add "a few" to the start of the latter.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould

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