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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (54515)	8/12/2002 4:54:15 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

"in favor of a system where religions compete in the marketplace of ideas and institutions without having to trash their competitors" This is laudable. But that would require either the religions to change, or the representatives to "interpret" absolute beliefs in a relativistic way. Is it not better that people work without dogma to follow their compassion, than for people to choose between dangerous and meaningless? After all, without totalitarianism, most religions are deprived of their fundamental tenets of absolutism. Of what ultimate value are "market-place" religions which assert a moral code based on perhaps or maybe? As to your religion of "Providence"...I think I can respect that as being non intrusive or controlling. I think "Providence" derives Her dictums from the human heart and the reason. If there is any Divinity in humanity then this seems to me to be sufficient as well as embracing of the entire human condition. Yes, let us listen to Shakespeare, Aurelius, Socrates, and others. Let us listen to our neighbour; and let us listen to the cormorant and the pelican. But let trashing, demonizing, and the smugness and affinity for the "pleasure" of eternal torture be buried in the dark and wormy ground of our past.