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Monday, October 22, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part VIII

I must apologize to my readers for the slow pace of this series, but circumstances beyond my control have made it difficult for me to do much thinking, let alone writing. I shall endeavour to speed up things. The most important effect of the adoption of the idea of One God is that it furnishes what... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part VII

" L'enfer, c'est les autres ", “Hell is other people”, says Jean Paul Sartre in his play “No Exit”. But so is Heaven! For we are essentially ‘social animals’, forever suspended between the need for ‘others’ and the desire to be ‘ourselves.’ We construct our cultures and our myths collectively, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part VI

From the mists of the paleolithic, form the period of a collective human ‘dream time’ of which we hear an echo among the Aborigines of Australia, we have emerged into the turbulent days of Greece. Turbulent and fractured! For the concept of ‘Greek mythology’ glosses over the fact that there is no... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part V

I cannot bring myself to leave Greece without a reference to Plato’s Dialogues *, with their affirmation of the life of Reason, as exemplified in the person of Socrates. Of course, the commentaries on this work, and indeed that whole period of Athenian thought, including that of Plato’s disciple... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 23, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part IV

As promised, we are moving into the Greek world, but a few preliminary remarks are in order. Virtually anything I am saying about ‘the Greeks’ applies in varying degrees to other societies as well. The Greeks themselves were influenced in many ways by other cultures, many that came before them and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part III

When we speak of pre-historic humans, we need to remember two basic facts: their exceedingly small numbers, and their intimate proximity to and connectedness with nature, in ways that we can hardly imagine. Through most of the roughly 50,000-year history of h. sapiens we were hunters and gatherers.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part II

How does ‘religion’ arise out of the ‘mythical’? How can we conceive of a development that, as far as we know, has taken place in any culture we have ever known, and may well have flourished in those of whom we have only the sketchiest of evidence? We will never know exactly. But we do understand... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 6, 2007

Naut on Religion..Part I

In the following, I will lay out as clearly and succinctly as I can my current general position on religion. That will be followed by a discussion of a specific religion, at which point the title will change. If you find what follows boring, I apologize, but I must also tell you it can’t be helped,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 3, 2007

Jewish Apes and Christian Pigs...

'The principal of an Islamic school has admitted that it uses textbooks which describe Jews as "apes" and Christians as "pigs" and has refused to withdraw them. Dr Sumaya Alyusuf confirmed that the offending books exist after former teacher Colin Cook, 57, alleged that children as young as five are... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Leave Your Bibles at Home - or Else...

Some of you may remember that not too long ago I wrote a post dealing with the worsening situation in Pakistan. And, almost on cue, we witnessed the ‘uprising’ and subsequent siege at the Red Mosque in Islamabad. By all accounts, the influence, if not yet power, of radical Islam is spreading. At the... Sign in to see full entry.

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