[lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize
- From: Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:52:09 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
It's interesting that on this occasion you deleted the rest of your post that
read:
"Rich people may be atheists, but they are too busy with other concerns
to promote atheism (and, I speculate, have long since discovered that
silence on the topic causes less trouble for their businesses)."
The conclusion being that religious people have time on their hands. Okay,
never mind, I get your point; religion is a distraction.
Rich people give money to build churches because religion is synonymous with
power. Religion, politics and power are inextricable. Cathedrals are a
display of power and wealth. Yeah, right, the rich think about eternity. A
rich man shall enter the kingdom of heaven the way a camel goes through the eye
of a needle. As far as atheists being short term thinkers, everybody's a short
term thinker unless you know somebody with a crystal ball. It doesn't get more
religious than our administration and they didn't give a second thought to what
would happen the day after the invasion, precisely because they had God and
religion on their side.
The original question was, why is it not okay to be an atheist in "advanced"
countries like the U.S.?
-----Original Message-----
>From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Mar 16, 2007 9:04 PM
>To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Fw: Re: Charles Taylor Templeton Prize
>
>Are you being deliberately obtuse? There are a lot of rich religious
>people who, because of their religion, are used to giving money to
>good causes. They used to build cathedrals; now it's megachurches.
>They founded universities and fund endowments like the one that
>provides the Templeton Prize. If time is an issue at all, it may be
>because they think of eternity, while the atheist has only a much more
>limited timespan and tends to be a short-term thinker.
>
>John
>
>On 3/17/07, Andy Amago <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> In other words, God fearing types have lots of time on their hands.
>
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>John McCreery
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