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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (17410)	5/7/2004 10:55:08 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 28931

People have to stop psychologizing religion out of existence. There is a tendency in the secular mind that the stronger the religious feeling, the more necessary to treat it as craziness and, therefore, a psychiatric problem. The major problem of most of the extremists I've met was the curse of the consistency of their thought. The intellectual power that allows them to be totally logical and totally consistent made them both intellectually charismatic and tremendously dangerous. I'm saying it's necessary to try to understand who they are and how they work. But that's not relegating them to the psychiatric ward. In the Branch Davidian standoff at Waco, one of the FBI agents referred to David Koresh as speaking "Bible babble." Well, you can't do that. David Koresh was speaking another language. It was your duty as a negotiator to learn his language, to translate your demands into his language, so you could speak to him. It's true, because he was a fanatic, that he wasn't going to learn your language. But the government had more responsibility than he did. The government is bearing a greater weight of responsibility for public safety and human life than he is. You can't say, "Well, he's not learning our language, so we're not going to learn his language." pbs.org