[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
>>
> 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.

True. And if all the beauty would have been generated with or without 
religion, so presumably would the wars & the suffering. What might we 
conclude? Perhaps that humanity is fated to generate beauty and suffering 
equally and that religion is but a symptom of our fate, not its cause.

You all should see the sun in Tunis this morning. Best, MN 


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