Re: Commentary: Designs on Us

<jspaceman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >From the article:
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>
> In a wonderful irony, the only intellectual framework in which people
> can genuinely be expected to pursue truth dispassionately, even if that
> truth undermines our sense of personal prestige, happens to be the
> religious framework, in which people aren't animals at all but rather
> beings created in the image of God.

The above has to be the maddest paragraph I've read all year. It's
*fascinating*, actually, that these kooks really seem able to believe that
the 'religious framework' they advocate stands even *an outside chance* of
'pursuing truth' -- when the very basis of that entire 'framework' is that
*they already possess all the important knowledge*, since *all essential
truth was 'revealed' thousands of years ago*! To such an addled brain, the
'real laws of the universe' and the ultimate force and meaning behind
everything are *already known* -- and everything else is mere
*nail-polish*...

Incidentally, I *love* that bit about how the 'religious framework'
supposedly permits people to uncover truths 'that undermine our sense of
personal prestige': only a true kook could assert such a thing about an
orientation that sees human beings as 'created in the Image of God'; able to
have a 'personal' relationship with this 'God'; possessors of an immortal
and immutable spiritual essence; the goal of 'creation'; ; ; etc, etc...!

T.


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