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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (230558)	4/25/2005 2:18:33 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573851

Ted, That's not how it looks. If we are in a "Post modern" period whatever that means, it is trying to make religion a more public thing where the state and church are more closely intertwined. When I mention "post-modernism," I'm talking about the movement pushed by the leftist intellectuals, especially in academia. Obviously I'm not talking about the "neocon" movement that you and JF constantly deride. The only post modernism with which I'm familiar is that applied to architecture. During the 1980s, it was an attempt to differentiate from the Modernist period in architecture. Frankly, architecture has not changed all that much and so I find the whole notion rather odd. Yes, I know you're not talking about the neocon movement. I just have no point of reference when it comes to any discussion of post modernism. Z claims to be an atheist. I can not imagine that that will lead the people around him to some "horror" or "some depressive state of nihilism and............". Do you? I'm not talking about Z specifically, but about atheism in general. The 20th century saw the horrors atheists are capable of. We saw what evil can do, not atheists. Over the centuries, there have been bad things perpetrated by both Christians and atheists. I don't see atheism as a general threat except when its combined with evil. Nowadays, we're seeing a sense of meaninglessness that is dominating the souls of GenX and GenY. Cast adrift in a sea of conflicting "truths," they yearn for real direction. That feels real subjective. I think there are those in every generation that have "a sense of meaningless" and "yearn for real direction". Usually, there is a sense of internal emptiness that accompanies those other feelings. ted