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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (793381)7/3/2014 4:52:24 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 1576102
 
Religious vs non-religious core belief systems are at odds with regards to an understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature. We can be wholistic and identify the commonality in all. But if you separate systems of beliefs (which groups love to do) like environmentalism or Economic systems, you can definitely identify conflicts in beliefs. Up to now secular groups have been uncomfortable with the idea that their underlying assumptions are actually beliefs and have deliberately cast the concept of belief into the Religious domain. As soon as the term begins to be co-opted you will see what I have predicted.

There is an underlying set of values based on assumptions which cannot be observed in secular systems, but which seem born out by experience and turn of events, and this is the very character of belief.

* Population control to save the planet, is a belief.
* Economic progress is an end in itself is the correct path to an ultimate end, is a belief
* A green lifestyle ending the corruption caused by humans, is a belief.
* Modernisation to end conflict in the world, is a belief
* Evolutionary theory about the creation of life or the universe, is a belief.
* The authority of science, is a belief
* Etc
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