[lit-ideas] Re: Comparative religion

> [Original Message]
> From: Mirembe Nantongo <nantongo@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 3/13/05 4:32:53 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Comparative religion
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Religions are human endeavor par excellence. Without
> them we would certainly have been spared untold suffering but also,
perhaps,
> untold beauty. 


A.A. Untold beauty in religion because beauty wasn't allowed to exist
otherwise.  We can also think about what we would have had without
religious repression and murder of artists.  Christopher Marlowe's short
life is thought to have been a political intrigue, which is to say, part of
the Catholic/Protestant power struggle, for example.



Perhaps I'm just getting old and  becoming overly respectful
> of others, but it seems to me that non-existent gods can be made to exist
> and that, in the end, this is a good rather than a bad thing for us all.


A.A. Except that some religious practices include child abuse and other
Taliban-style activity.  Specifically I'm speaking about the Fundamentalist
Mormons.  Maybe I'm too practical, but if people took the passion that they
invest in religious hogwash and invest it in something positive, imagine
the possibilities.  However, since that will never happen, tolerance of
each other's gods is the next best thing.


Andy Amago


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