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To: Mephisto who wrote (3096)	1/15/2001 4:25:27 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6089

Good quote: Dawkins - "If I say something offensive to religious people, I'll be universally censured, including by many atheists. But if I say something insulting about Democrats or Republicans or the Green Party, one is allowed to get away with that. Hiding behind the smoke screen of untouchability is something religions have been allowed to get away with for too long."

To: Mephisto who wrote (3096)	1/15/2001 4:44:55 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6089

So, I wonder how will we survive a Bush Presidency that supports a right-wing Christian platform. Yeah, I worry, too. But I worried when Reagan won and nothing earth shattering happened. I even voted for him the second time. (Am I allowed to say that on this thread?) So maybe it won't this time either. I think there are enough people out there throughout the political spectrum who are smart enough to know a theocracy isn't in the country's best interests. Karen

To: Mephisto who wrote (3096)	1/15/2001 11:15:44 PM
From: bela_ghoulashi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

>> Dawkins also says that...." if I say something insulting about Democrats or Republicans or the Green Party, one is allowed to get away with that." << This is probably because there is nothing numinous about political beliefs, or mysterious about their origins and possible purposes. Life, the fact of "being", however, is numinous and mysterious, despite reductionist explanations to the contrary. Most people probably realize that in thinking and speaking about it, its possible source and origins, they are speaking of something beyond themselves, beyond their own power and understanding. Organized religion has "collected" all that mystery and power unto itself, rightly or wrongly. Politics could never serve to inspire the same sense of awe, hence, never the same sense of "sacrilege".