Re: Commentary: Designs on Us


ToniG wrote:
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> > >From the article:
> > -------------------------------
>
> >
> > 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.


What's really kooky is the very idea that to pursue truth one has to
delude oneself into thinking they are something other than the
obvious:Animal. Only when you are able to accept that which is unreal
can you then pursue the truth...hahaha

.

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