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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: E who wrote (4573)2/3/2001 1:41:34 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Just read X's theory. Seems to make sense to me. I wonder how the ants who tend their aphid-cows feel about them? The male domination of women has been going on for so long that I'm sure it is stuck in our social and religious institutions. As soon as one spends any time analyzing the situation and if one doesn't think the physical or politically strong should dominate the weak, then you have to start questioning many different social systems we have in place.

This is what I was getting at with my comments about the WASPy nature of religion. While it may attract the dispossessed, it is not FOR the dispossessed. The idea of people sending their money to a TV preacher disgusts me HOWEVER here is my view:

In a way it is like getting upset because people pay money to ride Star Tours at Disneyland. They pay the price of admission and get an experience. Is it wrong that the little robot pilot is really a lie? No, I guess not.

I think many religious people are doing the same thing. They buy pre-packaged, "shrink-wrap" religions to fill their lives with a moral reference. They don't have to think about it because it is like the McDonalds of Philosophy. They don't know how to ask deep questions, so they buy the answers.

One of my friends thought that this "fraud" of TV evangelists was the worst kind of thing in the world because it callously exploited people's dearest beliefs. I disagree. It is sad, but no sadder than some guy whose only sexual outlet is a peep show. Who is he hurting? Is he being harmed? Not really, except that he is preventing his own personal development. But that is his right.

I can try to educate someone that organized religion is, as Marx said, an opiate. But I don't think opiates should be illegal either. At least when you are strung out on opiates, the proximal cause is known. I can't say the same about people strung out on a mean-spirited religion.
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