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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Naut on Religion…XVIII

I can’t leave this section without a few final remarks on this really multi-facetted religious myth we call Christianity. I believe that in its essence, its core, I am tempted to say in its conception (if that were not a term too reminiscent of something rationally planned, with due consideration... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, November 25, 2007

Naut on Religion…XVII

In my view, those who, like Dawkins, Dennet, Hitchens and others who speak of the ‘God delusion’, have got it wrong. Not because there really is a God, but because they view a faith in God as inherently pathological, as something that requires a cure. However, my understanding of the human mind and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Naut on Religion…XVI

In previous sections, I have emphasized that one of the reasons for Christianity’s success was that it is easily grafted on to diverse cultures because its message is culturally relatively non-specific. But over time, as the new religion became institutionalized across Europe, Christianity became... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, November 17, 2007

Naut on Religion...XV

Beside the relative absence of cultural baggage derived from its origins, beside its message of hope for the down-trodden, there was another important reason for Christianity’s ultimately triumphant march across Europe – the ancient deities were already ‘dying’ or ‘fading away’. The gods had become... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Naut on Religion...XIV

Prompted by comments and questions, always welcome, I shall try and explain in greater detail what I mean by saying that Christianity represents a radical departure from the type of religious myth we encounter in earlier periods of history. Any religion, even Christianity, is grounded in the culture... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part XIII

As we now turn to an analysis of Christianity’s obvious success, I shall pretend that it is more of one piece than it really is. Having alluded to its historical and persisting heterodoxy in a previous post, however briefly, I shall now allow myself to disregard that and turn to the developments... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part XII

Throughout history, what we often refer to as religious conflict has never been merely about religion. Economics and matters of power always played a role as well. For example, it would be hopelessly naïve to assume that the Irish ‘troubles’ between Catholics and Protestants are motivated by... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, November 2, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part XI

As we now begin to inspect a few of the relevant strands of the rich tapestry that is Christianity, again we need to pause briefly and remind ourselves of a few historical facts. The most important of those is that the New Testament did not come into being in its present form until a few hundred... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 29, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part X

Before we now dive headlong into what has surely been one of the most important myths of the last fifteen-hundred years or so, a few more general remarks are in order, partly prompted by reader’s comments. I do not use the term ‘myth’ here in the way in which it is colloquially employed, where it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Naut on Religion...Part IX

When attempting to understand aspects of human history from a sociological or social-psychological perspective, as we are doing in this little series, we must take care not to litter the landscape with too many unexamined concepts. One of these is the notion of ‘progress’, which I mention here... Sign in to see full entry.

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